Ray Eames Movies

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 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...

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

A film by Charles and Ray Eames

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 movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. You will...

Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the...

A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris....

Documentary short

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the...

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

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

This film traces the design development of the Eames Sofa Compact, which folds for easy flat-pack shipping. The film, one of the first Charles and...

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic...

A live action pageant of mechanical toys, animals, puppets, cars, lead soldiers, and dolls—all set in motion. Toy buildings and photographic or...

This film was made by the Eamses on a weeks notice for a local Los Angeles TV show where jazz musicians improvised to the images live. The music that...