Movies: Elmer Bernstein

This 1954 feminist version of "Robinson Crusoe" stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Hayes....

The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides....

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage thinking of communications in a limited way. Music composed by Elmer Bernstein....

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment....

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside....

For 70 years, the sudden sinking of the mighty British ship Britannic - larger than the sister ship Titanic - has been shrouded in mystery. Jacques Cousteau reveals the full story of November 21, 1916 when, on her sixth journey as a hospital ship, Br...

The story of the 1960 US Presidential election...

A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris. The camera moves across details of paintings, as well as details of Cezanne’s studio, providing an i...

The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with....

The Naked Eye is a 1956 American documentary film about the history of photography directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....

A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports-related and not, that are at the limit of human capabilities....

Taking the Wheel is a dark comedy about the complicated relationship between an obstinate 90-year-old woman who refuses to give up driving, and her well-intentioned son who will stop at nothing to get her off the road....

Based on an existing slide show the Eames Office had made about the exhibition, A Computer Perspective (produced for IBM in 1971). The film is a visual survey of the collection of artifacts, ideas, events and memorabilia displayed in the exhibition ...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning....

John Dillinger had a very public, whirlwind career until authorities took him off the streets for good....

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the concepts, architecture, and overall look of the pavilion and to convey an impression of the exhibition...