Ray Eames Movies

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

A film by Charles and Ray Eames

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

The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

An excerpt from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which Charles delivered at Harvard University in 1970-71. Includes an evocative discussion of what...

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

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...

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

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...

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large...

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

But where have the women architects gone? It’s been a few centuries since women have been creating architectural works with passion and talent...

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

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...