Narrators, Phillip Morrison, Gregory Peck, et al. Originally produced as motion pictures from 1952-1977; this collection first created for video in 1989.
Contents:
(55 min.) -- opening of an exhibition (17 min.) ; A rough sketch (8 min.) ; 901 : after 45 years of working / produced by Eames Demetrios and Lucia Eames Demetrios (29 min.) -- v. 2. Toccata for toy trains ; House : after five years of living ; Lucia Chase vignette : the chase ; Kaleidoscope jazz chair ; The black ships : the story of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan told with Japanese pictures of the time ; Atlas : a sketch of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ; Blacktop : a story of the washing of a school play yard (65 min.) -- v. 3. The worlds of Franklin and Jefferson ; The Franklin and Jefferson proposal film ; The opening of an exhibition (55 min.) -- v. 6. Parade. IBM mathematics peep show ; SX-70 ; Nicholas Copernicus ; The fiberglass chairs ; From a three screen slide show made for a lecture on The New Covetables given by Charles Eames ... at Harvard, 1970-71 (60 min.) -- v. 5. Tops ; IBM at the Fair ; A computer glossary, or, coming to terms with the data processing machine ; The expanding airport : a study of service and convenience for Washington International ; Kepler's laws ; Bread ; A small hydromedusan : Polyorchis haplus ; Tops (from Stars of Jazz) (51 min.) -- v. 6. Day of the Dead ; S-73 (sofa compact) ; Babbage ; Alpha ; Exponents : A study in genralization ; Solar do-nothing machine ; Aquarium (national fisheries center and aquarium) ; Parade.
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