ABSTRACT
In 1972 the Eames office made Cable: The Immediate Future for the newly established Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with a grant from the National Science Foundation. The film contained a proposal to use cable television as a communications tool that could connect homes, offices, and universities. The images screened together with this statement were taken from a wide range of the Eameses' projects, extending those ideas and synthesizing the divergent projects. Created out of images from the multimedia presentations A Communications Primer, Glimpses of the USA, House of Science, Think, and the exhibition 'Mathematica', the slideshow comprises their best images from their most renowned projects, providing a succinct overview of their design philosophy. Charles toured internationally with reels of film for the USIA; the Eameses created Excellence, GEM Its title an acronym for government, education, and management, GEM was created as a Corporation Recognition Event for IBM's elite management.
