Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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 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...
...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 demands, especially on students, the idea film is so a good teacher could come along and work with...
...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 starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...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 if it is built. Still, fragments of this aquarium reality exist in the Eames Office: photos of sea anemones cover one wall in the Office's projection room. Mockups of the future aquarium conceptualize an exhibition alcove for the Smithsonian. Tanks of plant life, fishes, and stealthy octopuses occupy a niche next...
from "House of Science," a film introduction to the Seattle World Fair Science Exhibition...