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The films of Charles and Ray Eames. Volume 2 / produced by Eames Demetrios and Shelley Mills.
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.E96 F557 2005 v. 2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eames, Charles.
- Eames, Ray.
- Office of Charles and Ray Eames.
- Design.
- Railroads--Models.
- Railroads.
- Architecture, Domestic--California.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- California.
- Office furniture.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854).
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container and disc label: Films of Charles & Ray Eames. Volume 2
- Title on set box: Films of Charles & Ray Eames
- Films of Charles and Ray Eames. Volume two
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Pyramid ; Chatsworth, Calif. : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]
- System Details:
- DVD, Region 0 ; Dolby digital, mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Toccata for toy trains is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. House : after five years of living illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. Lucia chase vignette follows a sister chasing her brother through the Eames house and vicinity. Kaleidoscope jazz chair is a kaleidoscope tour of the Eames office and their multicolored chairs. The Black ships illustrates Admiral Perry's 1853 naval expedition to Japan through Japanese prints. In Atlas a map of the Roman Empire expands and contracts, encapsulating the ebb and flow of the Empire's history. Blacktop : a story of the washing of a school play yard focuses on the patterns and abstractions created by the soapy water.
- Contents:
- Toccata for toy trains (1952)
- House : after five years of living (1955)
- Lucia chase vignette (1976)
- Kaleidoscope jazz chair (1960)
- The black ships (1970)
- Atlas
- Blacktop (1952).
- Participant:
- Narrator, Gregory Peck.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Lucia Demetrios ; producers, Eames Demetrios, Shelley Mills.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of 1952-1976 productions.
- Contains:
- Toccata for toy trains
- House
- After five years of living
- After 5 years of living
- Lucia chase vignette
- Kaleidoscope jazz chair
- Black ships
- Atlas
- Blacktop
- Story of the washing of a school play yard
- OCLC:
- 61669249
- Publisher Number:
- 014381921120
- 014381044027 (set)
- ID9211PIDVD Image Entertainment
- ID0440PIDVD Image Entertainment (set)
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