Spectacles Old And New 1963

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London.

A good story about how spectacles have been used over the years. It starts with an optician adjusting a pair of spectacles with a machine, he puts them on a girl who looks at herself in the mirror. Various shots of modern women wearing spectacles as fashion accessories.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3332
Sort Number:
CP 431
Time in/Out:
01:35:04:00 / 01:37:47:00
Canister:
CP 431
Film ID:
223.06
Issue Date:
25/03/1963

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