Directed by Leslie Roush for Paramount Pictures and the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company in the 1940s, TO GREATER VISION promotes the company’s mission and innovation. The film explains the manufacturing processes involved during the creation of glass used in optical instruments such as microscopes to spectrographs to corrective spectacles. The film explains the basic physics of light such as refraction when passing from air to glass, then shows how eyes are treated and faulty vision is corrected by using custom made lenses. The company’s motto in this era was “To Greater Vision Through Optical Science”.
Some of the interesting devices seen in the film include the spectrograph, metalograph (metallography is the study of the physical structure and components of metals, typically using microscopy), the contour projector, opthalmoscope, and much more. Optical sound recording equipment, camera and projector lenses, and other optical devices are also shown.
At the 18 minute mark, WWII footage is shown with demonstrations of how the company’s products fight the good fight — from rangefinders to binoculars to signal lamp lenses and more. Aerial camera lenses, bubble sextants, goggles, height finders, and spotting scopes — and the list goes on and on.
At the 21 minute mark the making of eyeglass lenses is seen with the lenses going through the whole process from developing a prescription to grinding lenses.
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