Collecting Spectacles For The Underdeveloped Countries (1965)

Maarsen, Holland (Netherlands). Close up shots of two young and two old people using antique spectacles and eye glasses. Various shots of volunteers including children working at sorting out and wrapping used spectacles which have been donated by people from all over Holland and which will be sent to people in undeveloped third world countries. Dr Dick Jager, man who runs the organisation, checking lenses and sorting them into concave and convex groups. Close up shots of the still photographs of Africans all suffering from eye complaints also still of them being treated. CU. African boy putting on a pair of spectacles. (F.G.) Date found in the old record - 22/11/1965. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which include