The Eye Our Wonderful Bodies (1932)

Joe Noble animation. A woman’s face is drawn through stop frame animation. A caption appears: “Nature’s Masterpiece.“ The picture changes into a kind of x-ray 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