Through Life’s Windows: Series two

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

115

Date Released

9 Feb 1922

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Through Life’s Windows: Series two
2. 2The Jazz Girls give us a Jazzy Dance.
3. 3An original and grotesque animal study
4. 4Some charming and latest modes in "Condor Millinery" worn by Constance Worth
5. 5The Noah Family: Japhet, a fish, and a plum cake. (Part two)
6. 6The Minstrels of 1922

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Section Title

Through Life’s Windows

Summary

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.115" inside and a ribbon which reads "Around the Town".
'"Through Life’s Windows" A unique film study of your eyes - Series 2 -'. ‘Last week we showed you a Model of the Lenses that are in your eyes and compared them with a camera _'. ‘The eye is just such a combination. First comes the cornea, the hard but transparent surface that gives its lustre to the eye.' Close up of a diagram of the eye. The cornea is labelled. Close up of a bull’s (?) eye in someone’s hands. The "Crystalline" is labelled on the previous diagram. ‘The crystalline is a wonderful magnifying glass, but not made fro rough handling.' Close up of the crystalline on a piece of sacking. ‘The crystalline has the power of expanding and contracting, so we may see objects at different distances’. This movement is demonstrated on the diagram. ‘The photographic film corresponds to the delicat tissues forming the retina, the nerve screen at the back of the eye.' A pair of hands pull the film out of the back of a camera. On the diagram, the retina is labelled, then the optic nerve. The hands show the nerves on a 3D model. Then, the retina is scraped off the bull’s eye. ‘The Flower of the Eye -- the retina ad optic nerve, as they appear floating in water.' Close up as the retina and ooptic nerve are poked around in a dish full of water. ‘Nature devised these tissues for the eye to gaze upon green fields and trees.' A panning shot of an orchard. ‘Your eyes are your most valuable possession. You will never get another pair.'

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   2 February 1922, p58.
The Bioscope   9 February 1922, p8.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

192

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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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