Elmer Bernstein Movies

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of...

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

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

The story of the 1960 US Presidential election

Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following...

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...

A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince him not to but the boy has other ideas.

The short film uses a variety of familiar examples that have the feedback principle in common to present a broad view of the phenomena present in...

Allied commandos try to knock out Nazi communications on the French coast.

Using live-action footage, animation, and still photography of a scale model, this film presents the Eames unique multimedia concept for making the...

A Rough Sketch features a linear view of our universe from the human scale to the sea of galaxies, then directly down to the nucleus of a carbon...

For 70 years, the sudden sinking of the mighty British ship Britannic - larger than the sister ship Titanic - has been shrouded in mystery. Jacques...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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...

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

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...

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

The subject of problem solving begins with an explanation of what the Eameses called “the information machine, “a device for presenting...

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage...