The Films of Charles & Ray Eames

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A set of 2 doublesided videodiscs. The items of interest for use in lectures are the two films Powers of Ten and A Rough Sketch. From the disc jacket:
Perhaps the most famous of the many films produced by Charles and Ray Eames are Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding another Zero(1977) and its predecessor, A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of the Universe(1968). The films offer an unusual voyage of the eye from a picnic blanket out to the farthest reaches of man's understanding of the universe, back to the picnic, and then into the skin, artery, blood cell, atoms and nucleus of a man sleeping on the picnic blanket.....
The narration of physicist Philip Morrison and musical score of Elmer Bernstein pace the stream of images........

Disc One/Side One

  1. Introduction of Charles and Ray, narrated by Gregory Peck
  2. Overview of Volume 1 Films
  3. Powers of Ten (1977)
  4. A Rough Sketch (1968)
  5. credits

Disc One/Side Two

901: After 45 Years of Working, a film by Eames Demetrios
  1. Prologue
  2. Musical towers tour
  3. A look outside
  4. Hurdy-gurdy tour
  5. Moving
  6. Last moments
  7. credits
  8. color bars

Disc Two/Side One

  1. Introduction of Charles and Ray, narrated by Gregory Peck
  2. Overview of Volume 2 Films
  3. Toccata for Toy Trains (1957)
  4. House: After Five Years of Living (1955)

Disc Two/Side Two

  1. Lucia Chase Vignette (1976)
  2. Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair (1960)
  3. The Black Ships (1970)
  4. Blacktop (1952)
  5. credits
  6. color bars
Disclaimer: All demonstrations are posted for the convenience and benefit of faculty and staff in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University and are not intended for outside use. The author(s) assume no responsibility or liability for the use of information contained on this site. Warnings and precautionary measures listed on this site assume normal operation of equipment and are not inclusive. Demonstrations may pose a significant hazard and can, in some instances, result in death; reasonable safety precautions must be taken. Demonstrations should be performed by qualified individuals only.

Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007

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