Ray Eames Movies

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.

A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century...

hese two churches, Viersehnheiligen and Ottobeuren are rich examples of mid-18th-Century German Baroque, a time when music, literature, architecture...

Atlas gives the viewer an overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning in 500 BC, a time clock at the bottom of the screen marks off...

A short film of the opening of the last museum exhibition prepared by the Eames. The exhibition was called "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" and...

Documentary short

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane...

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese...

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage...

The lives of Franklin and Jefferson are used as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. With a dynamic timeline and a wealth of images drawn...

One of a series of three films on mathematics conceived and produced by the Eames Office with Ray Redheffer, professor of Mathematics at UCLA. A...

A live-action film of a rare sea creature. The tiny transparent life form (only 5/8″ high) has only rarely been observed in its natural...

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM...

In 1957, Charles and Ray designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. True to the Eameses’ belief that...

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

The Eames design philosophy presented in the form of a series of questions posed by a curator at the Louvre and answered by Charles Eames.

The process of manufacturing fiberglass chairs is shown through visuals only, with no narration.

A seven-screen presentation for the American pavilion at the Moscow World's Fair.

The film sets forth the objectives of the planned Center, describes its architectural program, and gives a guided tour through a model of the...