A Communications Primer (1953) by Ray & Charles Eames

by Scott Beale on February 19, 2009 · 3 comments

“A Communications Primer” an instructional film from the Prelinger Archives created in 1953 for IBM by Ray & Charles Eames with music by Elmer Bernstein.

via Today and Tomorrow

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1 Cheryl February 21, 2009 at 10:30 am

The Eames video on Vimeo unfortunately was “deleted at 2:52:12 Friday Feb 20″ according to the site. Is there another source to view this? Bummer, Dude…

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2 Scott Beale February 21, 2009 at 11:24 am

I’ve already updated the post with the video from the Internet Archive. Try clearing your cache.

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3 Tom October 25, 2009 at 7:06 pm

This is good insight and teaching on communication, especially to appreciate the complexity of the human body and nervous system, as all those thousands of decisions are communicated to make up smooth flowing action, that’s amazing stuff.

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