A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century by English inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage. The engine, designed to calculate and print-out tables of numbers for use in navigation, insurance, and astronomy, is considered an important artifact in this history…
With a live-action prologue that gives an intimate view of a computer data path, this animated film presents, through computer terminology, some revealing and characteristic aspects of the electronic problem-solving art. Music by Elmer Bernstein. Atlanta International Film Festival Bronze Medal, 1969. 10 minutes, 47 seconds With a live action prologue that gives an intimate…
The 3473 Sofa, referred to in some catalogs as the “Three-Passenger Sofa,” had some genuinely innovative features—like an aluminum frame whose cross-section graduated from round to elliptical. Its overall form and construction alluded both to the Eames Sofa Compact and the Eames Executive Chair. Eames 3473 Sofa The first Eames sofa, the Sofa Compact, struck…
Highlighting the last-minute preparations for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, this film was shot and assembled spontaneously to highlight the use of Herman Miller furniture around the fairgrounds in both rest areas and the US Science Pavilion. Photographs of construction crews, the nearly completed exhibition buildings, and the myriad shapes and textures of the site…
The 1675 Group came out in 1962, with the same base as was offered on the early Executive Chairs. The shape of the four blades is more organic, and less angular than the 1957 Eames contract base. The same mold that produced the Lobby chair bases was also used to produce the bases for all…
A live action film study of the development of the Supersonic Transport plane (SST) for the U.S. government. It demonstrates the degree to which computers are used to support design development and production in an aerospace manufacturing facility. Filmed on location at the aircraft manufacturing facility in Seattle, Washington, the narration describes the steps taken…
The Good Years is the collective title given to three short film sequences made for a CBS television special produced by Leland Hayward. Shown in 1962, the special presentation dealt with three historical events that occurred just after the beginning of the twentieth-century. The idea and title for the show were taken from the book…
