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Fitting Faces (1940)

1940 · Ephemeral film · 8 min

Synopsis

Light short subject on eyeglass fashions.

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Running time
8 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
FittingF1940

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★★★★ · Here's looking at you kid. · Umass_Kid · 2004-04-03

Best line of the picture is when the narrator says, Watch at the hot liquid changes from white hot to red hot. Problem? Its a black & white film. Fun shots of factory workers and machines working fill this little film.

★★★ · Hey, why the long face? (LMAO!) · Spuzz · 2003-05-15

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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