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  • All Souls' Day -- Mexico -- Pictorial works.
     
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    The films of Charles & Ray Eames. Volume 6 [digital videodisc] / Executive producer, Lucia Eames ; produced by Eames Demetrios and Shelley Mills.
    [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Pyramid Media ; Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2005]
    Subjects
  • Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.
  •  
  • National Fisheries Center and Aquarium (U.S.) -- Design.
  •  
  • Design.
  •  
  • Eames sofa compact.
  •  
  • Furniture design.
  •  
  • All Souls' Day -- Mexico -- Pictorial works.
  •  
  • Holidays -- Mexico -- Pictorial works.
  •  
  • Mathematics -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Algebra -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Exponents (Algebra) -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Calculators -- Technological innovations -- 19th century.
  •  
  • Inventions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
  •  
  • Public aquariums -- Washington (D.C.) -- Design.
  •  
  • Parades.
  •  
  • Children's drawings.
  •  
  • Children's art.
  • Description: 
    1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
    Contents: 
    Día de los muertos = Day of the dead : A festival in Mexico (1957 ; ca. 14 min. ; The Museum of International Folk Art presents) -- S-73 [Subtitle on container: (sofa compact)] (1954 ; ca. 6 min. ; Made for the Herman Miller Furniture Co.) -- The calculating machine, or difference engine of Charles Babbage, 1823 [Title on container: Babbage] (Shot at the National Science Museum, South Kensington, London, in 1967 by Charles Eames ; ca. 3 min.) -- Alpha: a bravura containing some of the fundamenals of algebra (1972 ; ca. 1 min. 20 sec. ; Made for IBM) -- Exponents: a study in generalization (1973 ; ca. 3 min.) -- Solar do-nothing machine (1957/1991 ; ca. 2 min.) -- A report on the development of the architecture and the program for the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium, Washington, D.C. [Title on container: Aquarium (National Fisheries Center and Aquarium)] (1969 ; ca. 10 min. ; Made for the U.S. Department of the Interior) -- Parade, or, Here they come down our street (1952 ; ca. 5 min.).
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    Summary: 
    The 1st film is a record of Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. The 2nd film traces the design and development of S-73, the Sofa Compact. The 3rd film presents the feel of Babbage's Difference Engine, the mechanical antecedent of the electronic computer. The 4th film is on an important concept in algebra. The 5th film conveys the mathematcial concept of exponents. The 6th film presents footage of the Eames' Solar Do-Nothing Machine. The 7th film is a model, in film form, of the National Aquarium design. The 7th film presents a parade of robots, floating bulls' heads, toy soldiers, and more.
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