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Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs documenting production of films

About this Item

Title

  • Photographs documenting production of films

Summary

  • Photographs created and used to develop and document production and subjects of short films and multiscreen presentations. Subjects depicted include Eames Contract Storage (ECS); toy trains; tops; children playing; Polaroid instant cameras; scientific instruments; Smithsonian Institution collections and buildings, and the U.S. Capitol building; airplane production at the Boeing airplane assembly plant, Seattle, Washington; and fiberglass chair production for Herman Miller, Inc. Many images show behind-the-scene activity, including some of Charles Eames directing or operating the camera, actors at work, staff selecting images and working on film; people, including Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Eames Office staff, representatives and staff from IBM and Boeing, and others; and recording sessions with Elmer Bernstein. Also includes copy photographs showing buildings and people in aftermath of 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, California; animation studies, layouts, and title frames.

Names

  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, designer
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, photographer
  • Boeing Company.
  • Herman Miller, Inc.
  • International Business Machines Corporation.

Created / Published

  • 1956-1978.

Contents

  • LOT 13191-1. ECS ("Eames Contract Storage") -- LOT 13191-2. Toccata for Toy Trains ("Toy Trains") -- LOT 13191-3. Glimpses of the U.S.A. ("Moscow") -- LOT 13191-4. San Francisco Fire ("S.F. Fire") -- LOT 13191-5. Meet Me in St. Louis -- LOT 13191-6. House of Science -- LOT 13191-7. Westinghouse in Alphabetical Order ("Westinghouse") -- LOT 13191-8. The Smithsonian Institution ("Smithsonian") -- LOT 13191-9. The Leading Edge ("Boeing") -- LOT 13191-10. Banana Leaf: Something About Transformations and Rediscovery -- LOT 13191-11. Cable: The Immediate Future ("CATV") -- LOT 13191-12. The Expanding Airport -- LOT 13191-13. The Fiberglass Chairs -- LOT 13191-14. Photography and the City -- LOT 13191-15. SX-70 ("Polaroid Film") -- 13191-16. Scientific American -- LOT 13191-17. Textile and Ornamental Arts of India -- LOT 13191-18. Tops -- LOT 13191-19. Introduction to Feedback ("Feedback") -- LOT 13191-20. Mathematica Peepshow -- LOT 13191-21. Think ("IBM Fair") -- LOT 13191-22. A Computer Glossary or, Coming to Terms with the Data Processing Machine ("Computer Glossary") -- LOT 13191-23. Films: Selected Stills.

Headings

  • -  Office of Charles and Ray Eames--People--1950-1980
  • -  Smithsonian Institution--Buildings--1950-1980
  • -  Smithsonian Institution--Exhibitions & displays--1950-1980
  • -  United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1950-1980
  • -  Boeing Company--Facilities--Washington (State)--Seattle--1950-1980
  • -  Polaroid Corporation--Products--1950-1980
  • -  Bernstein, Elmer
  • -  Multiscreen presentations--1950-1980
  • -  Short films--1950-1980
  • -  Animation--1950-1980
  • -  Motion picture production & direction--1950-1980
  • -  Eames contract storage (Furniture)--1950-1980
  • -  Eames plastic armchair--1950-1980
  • -  Furniture industry--1950-1980
  • -  Scientific equipment--1950-1980
  • -  Airplane industry--1950-1980
  • -  Instant cameras--1950-1980
  • -  Children playing--1950-1980
  • -  Model railroads--1950-1980
  • -  Tops (Toys)--1950-1980
  • -  Fires--California--San Francisco--1900-1910

Headings

  • Contact sheets--1950-1980.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1950-1980.
  • Photographic prints--1900-1910--Reproductions--1950-1980.

Genre

  • Contact sheets--1950-1980
  • Gelatin silver prints--1950-1980
  • Photographic prints--1900-1910--Reproductions--1950-1980

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into 23 LOT subdivisions, most based on name of film.
  • -  Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • -  LOT title devised; few photographs have individual captions.
  • -  Eames office inventory location: NB027, NB028, NB029, NB030.
  • -  Corresponding negatives in series LC-E10, LC-E11, LC-E12, LC-E13, and LC-E160.
  • -  Most of these photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, or other Eames Office staff members.
  • -  Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • -  Gift; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).

Medium

  • 598 contact sheets (10,160 images) : b&w and some color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  • 168 items : photocopy and graphite ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13191 (G) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98518451

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, Boeing Company, Inc Herman Miller, and International Business Machines Corporation, Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, photographer. Photographs Documenting Production of Films. San Francisco California, 1956. to 1978. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98518451/.

APA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, D., Boeing Company, Herman Miller, I. & International Business Machines Corporation, Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, photographer. (1956) Photographs Documenting Production of Films. San Francisco California, 1956. to 1978. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98518451/.

MLA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, et al., photographer by Office Of Charles And Ray Eames. Photographs Documenting Production of Films. to 1978. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98518451/>.