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Tops exemplifies one type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, Charles and Ray Eames explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over blacktop. When the making of...
The other category of Eames' films is the idea films. "We're not concerned here with how much background information we can provide in sixteen minutes," he said. "We're trying to provide a common experience from which a number of people could work. In a life with so many...
Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the...
The '67 film proposal for a National Aquarium was also an idea film. This time the subject was so tangible, that even though building construction had not begun, those seeing the film believed the aquarium existed. The aquarium will never equal the "fiction of reality" that Eames has created, even...
Eames continues his work in furniture design. Propagating new chairs involves mocking-up components of plywood and clay or forming new metal supports. Other pieces of furniture are tested with new upholstering. Previous experimenting, with plastics, lamination processes and molded plywood, developed the whole breed of Eames' chairs.