Contact Lenses (1948)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel titles read: ’The Eyes Have It. NEW LOOK IN GLASSES’. Sydney, Australia. C/U of woman’s eyes wearing massive contact lenses - looks quite uncomfortable. Several shots show the complete process of making the contact lenses. Australia’s only contact lens maker, Penrhyn Thomas, inserts an impression cup containing material for taking a cast of the eyeball over the woman’s eye (which has been anaesthetised)