SPECTACLES OLD AND NEW

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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London spectacles opticians fashion accessories British Optical Association museums Victorian costumes wigs quizzers eyeglasses

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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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