Traveling Boy. 1950. Color. A journey through the world of toys, with a mechanical boy as tour guide.
Parade, or Here They Come Down the Street. 1952.
6 minutes. Color. Filmed entirely with mechanical toys as actors moving
against a background of children's drawing of a city street. Band
music, Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever, accompanies the toy elephants
and tigers and horses while brilliant Jananese paper flowers and
balloons burst in the air over tehir heads. Drawings by Sansi Giraard
at age 5. Winner of Edinburgh Film Festival Award, 1954.
Blacktop. 1952. 11
minutes. Color. An exercisie in musical and visual Variations on a
theme, Blacktop is the image of water and foam floating in the washing
of a blacktopped school yard viewed against the music of Landowska
playing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Winner of Edinburgh International
Film Festival Award, 1954.
Bread.1953. 22 minutes, 30 seconds. Color. Study of bread made for Eames's "A Rough Sketch for a Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course."
Calligraphy. 1953. Study of Calligraphy for "A Rough Sketch."
A Communications Primer. 1953. 22
minutes, 30 seconds. Color. An early attempt to make a popular
presentation of communications theory--while a few of the techniques
and words seem dated, most of it holds up quite well. The original
motivation was to encourage such disciplines in the worlds of
architecture and planning.
S-73 (Sofa Compact).1954. 11 minutes. Color. Traces the design and development of a product and its uses.
Two Baroque Churches in Germany.1955. 10
minutes, 30 seconds. These two churches, Viersehneiligen and
Ottobeuren, are rich examples of mid-18th Century German Baroque, a
time when music, literature, architecture and philosophy were unified.
The film, rather than explaining the structure, attempts to give in one
reel with 296 stills, the feeling of what German Baroque was and what
gave it such great style. Music by George Muffat played by Walter
Korner on the organ at Vierezehneiligen.
House.1955. 11
minutes. Color. Largely because of Elmer Bernstein's fine score this
becomes a rather poetic view of the Eames house in Pacific Palisades,
California. It is full of details of everything, but is now a bit dated
except for those with an historical interest. Winner of Festival
International du Film Montreal Award, 1961.
Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India.1955. 11
minutes, 30 seconds. Color. Film record of an exhibition, designed and
installed by Alexander Girard of material selected by Alexander Girard
and Edgar Kaufman.
Eames Lounge Chair. 1956.
2 minutes, 15 seconds. B&W. A stylized and sped-up scene of the
assembling of the Eames leather lounge chair and ottoman, with music
improvised by Elmer Bernstein.
Film Montage: The Spirit of St. Louis.1956. Color. St. Louis was directed for Warner Brothers by Billy Wilder, a life-long friend of the Eameses.
Day of the Dead.1957.
Color. A portrayal of the Mexican Day of the Dead consisting of still
shots and narration. Winner of San Francisco International Film
Festival Award, 1958.
Toccata for Toy Trains.1957.
10 minutes. Color. Toy trains in toccata form is a nostalgic and
historical record of great old toys from the world of trains. The
characters, the architecture, the objects with whihc the scenes were
built, were all somewhere, at sometime, manufactured and sold. Music
score by Elmer Berstein. Winner of Edinburgh International Film
Festival Award, 1957. Seventh Melbourne Film Festival Award, 1958.
American Film Festival Award, 1959. Scholastic Teachers' 11th Annual
Film Award, 1960.
The Information Machine. 1957.
10 minutes. Color. An animated film made in 1957 for use in the IBM
Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair. Because it deals mostly in the
general principles surrounding man's problems and the electronic
computer, the points made in the film do not yet seem too dated. Music
by Elmer Bernstein. Drawings by Dolores Cannata. Winner of the
Edinburgh International Film Festival Award, 1958, Melbourne Film
Festival Award, 1963.
The Expanding Airport. 1958. 10 minutes. Color. Presents Eero Saarinen's concept for Dulles Airport.
Herman Miller at the Brussels Fair. 1958. 4 minutes, 30 seconds. Color. A film for the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
De Gaulle Sketch. 1959. 1
minutes, 30 seconds. B&W. An at-the-moment attempt to put together
all the images that appeared in the press on the de Gaulle crisis in a
one-and-one-half-minute resume. Later in January of 1960, Eric Severeid
used it on CBS in his recapping of events of the fifties.
Glimpses of USA. 1959.
12 minutes. Color. Glimpses of USA was commissioned by the State
Department to introduce the United States Exhibit at the Moscow World's
Fair. A rapid succession of still photos depicting various aspects of
American life were projected on seven 32-foot screens inclosed within a
geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller. Glimpses of USA was never
shown in its original form outside of the Moscow Fair presentations.
Kaleidoscope Shop. (nl) 1959.
4 minutes. Color. A tour around the Eames Workshop through a
Kaleidoscope. Charles produced this film for a lecture at the Royal
College of Art in London. He was uncomfortable with being asked to show
pictures of the Eames Office, so he used the fractured images from a
special camera that produces kaleidoscopic effects.
Time & Life Building International Lobby 1959.
Eames, commissioned to redesign theTime & Life Building
International Lobby, presented his proposal in the form of this film.
This was the 3rd "study film" made by the Eames Office presenting the
basic concept and design of a project. The film was shown in
conjunction with presentation of a model of the lobby made by the Eames
Office. The International Lobby project did not go beyond the proposal
stage but the Eames Office completed other lobbies for Time Inc. in its
New York offices, The film has no narration or music and is not in
general circulation.
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