Contact lens.

Date:
1954
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Contact lens. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

This film demonstrates a patient being fitted with contact lenses at Moorfields Eye Hospital. There is footage of a female patient in a consultation room with her records being updated and then undergoing eye test. A row of patients are fitted with lenses (they are facing the windows to ensure good visibility for the clinicians. How lenses are made from moulds from the eye is shown in progress. They are subsequently fitted to patients. Time passing is helpfully indicated by means of Big Ben at the beginning and wall clocks thereafter.

Publication/Creation

1954.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (13:03 mins.) : silent, colour

Duration

00:13:03

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Unrestricted.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Creator/production credits

Frederick Ridley. Institute of Ophthalmology.

Language note

In English.

Copyright note

Institute of Ophthalmology

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