The Eye Our Wonderful Bodies (1932)
Joe Noble animation. A woman s face is drawn through stop frame animation. A caption appears: Nature s The picture changes into a kind of xray image to show how the human eye works. Drawing of a cross section of the human eye. The eye is likened to a camera. The parts of a camera are compared to the parts of an eye lens, iris, etc. Everyone knows both have a shutter cartoon of a woman winking as a camera shutter opens and closes. The workings of the eye are explained. Eyesight problems are detailed long sight and short sight. The principles of how glass cut slanted will bend light rays is explained. We then see an assortment of spectacles. M, S of a woman taking a pair of fold up spectacles out of a case. She unfolds them and puts them on. She smiles at the camera Mrs Noble perhaps. C, U of another pair of spectacles being unfolded. They are placed on the woman s face and she smiles at the camera. Glamour shot of the same girl looking very sophisticated in a beret and
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