ABSTRACT
One of the most powerful and cogent messages presented at the exhibition was the Eameses' multiscreen film Glimpses of the USA, located inside the gold-anodized aluminium dome. The music in Glimpses of the USA, similar to that in the earlier city symphony films, holds the entire opus together by establishing the tone for each scene. Elmer Bernstein composed the soundtrack according to an Eamesian diagram outlining the intended crescendos and diminuendos. Robert Frank's 1959 book The Americans documents a very different side of the country, completely out of step with the Sports Illustrated, Time, and Life magazine photographs presented in Glimpses of the USA. Soviet film history provided insights into presenting the material in a format familiar to the audience. It gave additional nuance to the Eameses' intentions, as Eisenstein's films Strike, The Battleship Potemkin, and October were all on the subject of revolution.
