Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tops exemplifies the 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, they explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over a black top. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
...life. But Derby, near the manufacturing towns of Birmingham and Sheffield, was an early center of industrialization, with an excitement all its own. Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...through the granite walls. In the crystalline mountain air, passengers in the Vista-Dome can see more than 100 miles, from the snow-veined summit of Pikes Peak in the south, to the rugged profile of Longs Peak in the north. Lying far below now, Denver looks like a toy town...
...felt like a broken toy...