https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2d4b364d-152a-4fc2-b310-3eb0088823e0 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Produced by Encyclopedia Brittanica in 1947, this black & white educational film is about the human eye, vision and the role of the optometrist. Opening: The Eyes and Their Care (An Introduction) (:06-:21). People watch a baseball game. A baby in a crib. The baby holds a ball and plays with it. A mother holds another ball near the baby. Semi-professional baseball game. A pitcher throws a ball. A blind man holds onto his service dog / seeing eye dog as he crosses the street (:22-1:56). Close on a man's eyebrows and his eyes as he watches the baseball game. Eyes dart in different directions. Animated diagram of the eyeball. How light enters the eye is shown and explained in detail. Arteries and veins in the eye. Retina is explained and shown in a diagram how it works (1:57-4:13). Sharp vision and color vision. Dim vision. A man turns off lights and is in a darkened room. Dim light. Optic nerve (4:14-5:24). A baseball game in play. Animated diagram of the brain and vision / nerve tracks discussed. A baby in a crib. A younger boy looks out. Close on a child's eyes. A young boy with a lazy eye has trouble in turning it. A play at the plate in baseball. An eye doctor blocks one eye with a pad to restore sharp vision to the other eye. Example showing stereo view, with a look at how the left and right eye see the same image differently. Nearsightedness (5:25-7:43). Farsightedness. Stigmatism. Blurriness in the distance. Public pools can cause an irritation. A soiled towel can also cause harm. A stye in an eye. An eye doctor removes a particle from a man's eye. A steel particle is removed. The eye is then washed with a solution (7:44-9:28). Extreme light exposure from the sun can lead to blindness. A man reads a book. A worker in a factory has a shield to protect his eyes. A welder protects his eyes (9:29-10:27). End credit (10:28-10:32). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEOvmxsJvU Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:26:38 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2d4b364d-152a-4fc2-b310-3eb0088823e0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.