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  2. Glasses - Wikipedia

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    Man with glasses. A woman with glasses. Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support.

  3. Polaroid Eyewear - Wikipedia

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    In 1939 Day Glasses were the source of most of Polaroid's $35,000 profit, which introduced the first 3D movie glasses that same year. [6] Although sales rose to $1 million in 1941, the company's 1940 losses had reached $100,000, and it was only World War II military contracts that saved Land and his 240 employees.

  4. Edward Scarlett - Wikipedia

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    Edward Scarlett (1688 – 1743 in London) was an English optician and instrument maker, who first invented an eyeglass frame with earhooks in 1727. This frame is held by the nose and ears, at times the glasses were called in contrast to the nasal cannula and temples because they had short straps that pressed on the temple.

  5. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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    [19] [20] In the early 1920s, the use of sunglasses started to become more widespread, especially among movie stars. Inexpensive mass-produced sunglasses made from celluloid were first produced by Sam Foster in 1929.

  6. List of years in film - Wikipedia

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    1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.

  7. Glasses (film) - Wikipedia

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    Glasses is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Brian Duchscherer and released in 2001. [1] The film centres on Milo, a young boy with poor vision who gets new glasses, and turns his back on his best friend Gwenny when he finally has the opportunity to play soccer with the popular boys in school, only to learn a lesson about the value of true friendship when he breaks his glasses in the ...

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    TIL The 1964 Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer TV special is in a grey area of copyright due to the fact that the studio mistakenly spelled out the copyright date as 1164 in roman numerals and haven't ...

  9. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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    1950s singer Buddy Holly helped popularise Wayfarers. Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and James Dean, Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements.