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Fitting Faces (1940)

1940 · Ephemeral film · 8 min

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00:21:41 Girl in robe in front of vanity, doing nails, lipstick etc. 00:22:40 Mary in mirror putting on glasses VO: "Uh-oh, now she's gone and ruined everything." 00:22:33 Woman in chair getting professional makeup done 00:22:53 Man puts glasses on woman in chair Scenes of lens production

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Running time
8 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
0048FittingFaces00212900

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★★★ · Hey, why the long face? (LMAO!) · Spuzz · 2020-08-08

This short subject about glasses first tells us about Mary how she's looking so pretty will all of her makeup and how she 'ruins' it my wearing the most inappropiate glasses (they look fine to me). Soon, the makeup artist to the stars, 'Eddie Simms' (who I can't find on IMDB) says it's the size of the face and the size of glasses that are important! Which reminds me of the huge honker of a pair of glasses I was forced to wear as a wee lad.. anyways, we then turn to a nifty demonstration of how glasses are made, then back to Mary. who, we learn, has found not 1, but three better glasses to…

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