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New Charles & Ray Eames documentary

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YMzmuBBBzo&feature=player_embedded#!] "Eames: The Architect and the Painter, a documentary on the husband and wife design duo, will be out in theaters in mid-November. The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life -- from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age -- has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work."