Summary

Wonderland of Vision

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Wonderland of Vision
File Number: PA-1006 1 inch
Color: Color
Type: Educational Industrial
Subjects: ANATOMY EYES LENSES SCIENCE LIGHT RAYS EYESIGHT EXAMINATIONS GLASSES EYEGLASSES OPTHOMOLOGISTS Eyes Vision Perception Eyeglasses Opticians Glasses (eye) Gold bars Metals (precious) Gold Lenses (grinding) Lenses Optics Television (people watching) Better Vision Institute (sponsor)
Description: Wonderland of Vision EXPLAINS HOW EYE FUNCTIONS, HOW LENSES FOCUS LIGHT RAYS, HOW EYESIGHT IS EXAMINED & HOW GLASSES ARE FITTED. INCLUDES DIFFERENT TYPES OF EYEGLASSES. 10:13:52:00 MCU little boy on beach watching waves come in MCU neon lights, 2 boys in sailor suits CU 2 fish at bottom of water MCU boat at bottom of waterfall CU plastic model of eye and surrounding tissue that is disassembled CU cutaway of eye (drawing) with pointer being used drawing its titles CU Hand holding up lens Graphic of light penetrating lens Drawing of lens in front of "eye" 10:15:32:11 Girl at desk rubbing her eye, man straining to read bill, man rubbing his eye 10:15:51:19 Woman holding paper away from her to read it (farsightedness) 10:16:09:04 CU of eye doctor holding optometrist's tool to his eye 10:16:25:13 Doctor using tools to test woman's vision Drawings of Schnell, Isaac Newton, Thomas Young, and others Doctor examining woman's eyes with variety of large tools 10:17:24:03 MCU Woman in eyeglass-looking vision tester goggle-like apparatus CU Letters projected on a screen 10:18:33:07 Tray of eyeglasses, woman trying on glasses The making of a lens, making pot to ground glass Kaleidoscopes of colored sheets of glass, lines of pots for holding glass VS of optical glass factory works Cooked earth for glass is poured onto slab, looks like egg yolk and is rolled Another kaleidoscope of glass Man checking slabs of glass Man cutting glass into squares or blanks 10:21:51:18 Woman weighing glass and putting glass on revolving diamond tip scale Man reheating glass Woman holding glass to fluorescent light to check for impurities Man putting lens in revolving press 10:22:55:19 ****** DANCE OF THE POLISHING SPINDLES******** Man polishing lens by hand Woman matching two lenses together, dusting them, etc. CU and MCU, then puts trays of them into furnace for tempering Man removes lens Rough grinding, sorting, weighing, inspections 10:25:11:20 CU glass blanks, camera pans over various stages 10:26:05:06 Man opening safe CU gold bars Melting down of gold, gold rolled VS of machinery working on gold Revolving parts of what goes into glass frames Woman cutting pieces of metal with mechanical cutter Women working at various pieces of machinery 10:27:29:23 Kaleidoscope of colors Man working on plastic frames 10:27:47:05 Woman picking off glass frames without earpieces off of pole Man polishing completed lens on grinder Woman inspecting eyeglasses without earpieces Man putting frames in pegs, pumice and soda, and tumbled in machine 10:28:30:08 Hands measuring lens blank for individual fitting Axis marking, cutting with lathe Revolving group of pieces of metal with various curvatures 10:28:51:29 Grinding a lens, put in machine and machine spins Woman inspecting lens through telescope 10:29:41:13 Man with finished pair of glasses woman trying on glasses Revolving table of eyeglasses, great 1940s-1950s type frame styles and fashions (Eyeglass montage People wearing glasses montage in color) 10:30:21:21 People in different types of eyeglasses (i.e. mother, daughter, doll) 10:31:31:28 VS showing activities that eyeglasses make possible for people: man pitching baseball man hitting baseball man sledding, people on carousel, couple playing cards, woman sewing, roller coaster, woman skater doing spin, couple watching television, 10:32:29:13 cover of Eye Care booklet
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