Through Life’s Windows: Series one

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

114

Date Released

2 Feb 1922

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Through Life’s Windows: Series one
2. 2The latest modes from Paris
3. 3A clever football cartoon of C. BUCHAN
4. 4Some "good chances" taken in "Pot Luck" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London.
5. 5The Noah Family: Japhet, a fish, and a plum cake

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Section Title

Through Life’s Windows

Summary

Summary - An unique film study of the human eye.
NoS synopsis: Lead title: Cartoon of a turning globe with a sun and moon either side. Text written in stars "Beauty and Celebrity. Literature, Science and Art. Sole Distributors ... The Gaumont Coy. Ltd..." The Globe turns into a film of people and traffic milling round Eros, then fades to the Palace of Westminster, then fades to the turning globe again. New cartoon of a crown of olive with "No.114" inside and a ribbon which reads "Around the Town".
'"Through Life’s Windows-" A unique film study of your eyes - ' intertitle with a cartoon of a pair of glasses behind it. ‘Guaranteed correct in Optical principles by Professor J.P. Southall and Professor Herman W. Farwell.' Close up of a pair of eyes. ‘Why does the eye reflect the soul? How can one glance reveal, better than words, the innermost depth of your feelings?' Close up of a girl’s face as she acts worried, surprised, angry, happy and sad with her eyes. ‘Artists will tell you it is not the eye that does it, but every muscle of the face.' Close up as the girl moves her eyelids and forehead about in the same expressions. ‘Your eye is really a photographic camera. We are going to show you a picture. It will stay on the screen one-sixteenth of a second. Try to see it.' A white screen with a large "F" on it briefly appears. ‘Did you catch it? Well, try again. This time it will stay one eighth part of a second.' ‘Ready?' A white screen with a large "Q" on it briefly appears. ‘What was it? If you did not get it, perhaps you will get this one, in one-quarter of a second.' A white screen with a large "D" on it briefly appears. ‘Yes, it was a D. It took you one quarter of a second to see it, but it took the camera only one 1,000th part of a second to see this ---' Close up of a hand holding a photograph of a man on a bicycle in flight. ‘The eye and the camera work vey much in the came way. Compare the eyelids ---' Clos eup of a pair of eyes opening and closing. The rest of the face is in shadow. '---with a simple type of camera shutter, that lets the light in for just so long at a time.' Close up of a camera shutter held up and opened and closed. ‘And compare a camera lens taken from its mount ---' Hands dismantle three lenses and then stand them up in a row. '---with a model of the lenses that are in your eye.' The hands take apart a 3D model of the eye. ‘Take care of your eyes as they are your most valuable possession -' (This series will be continued next week.)'. A child in a sailor suit put on a pair of pince-nez but they fall off.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   26 January 1922, p54.
The Bioscope   9 February 1922, p37.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

321

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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