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In a theatre adjacent to the IBM festivities at the Seattle World’s Fair, the #Eames film The House of Science was looped for the fair’s 9.6 million attendees. After the fair's six-month lifespan expired, IBM funded the reproduction of The House of Science so that it could be widely circulated. This particular film serves as a prime example of the Eames approach of distilling complex ideas down into smaller, more manageable bits of information. The audience of these presentations was never to be professionals and scholars, but instead, the common person.
Read more about The House of Science film in our latest #EamesArchives blog: eames.link/eames-archives-the-house-of-science
Eames Archives: An Image as an Idea is a blog series written by Eames Office Photography Archivist, Kelsey Rose Williams, with the intention of sharing rarely-viewed images from the Eames Office archive and the untold narratives attached to them.