Right on the Nose

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1943

Creator: The Jam Handy Organization

Complete Record: “A Visual Training Guide Showing Practical Methods of Adjusting Industrial Safety Goggles Fitted with Nonprescription Lenses.” Safety, close shots of men and women wearing glasses/goggles while operating factory machinery, sparks flying, war-era, arrows point out eye and bridge size differences, lots of different faces, uncomfortable goggles contrasted on faces with comfy ones, man puts glasses on another, points to temple, bridge, side shields, cu of bending glasses temples, then ms of trying them on the subject again, more bending, more fitting, bending, shaping, turns subj. around, checks ears, shows how to bend ear piece, adjusts bridge and nose pads, (make sure there’s no pinching), use truing pliers to adjust bridge, but not nose pads-various cues of hands manipulating old glasses-style goggles, man keeps moving subject’s head around, tracing the goggles (ms), Various ms of factory workers, sparks, drill presses, male/female, more cues of hands manipulating goggles, fitting of goggles on slightly chubby man with mustache, fitting of “eyecup” goggles which fit with an elastic band, cu hand unscrewing lens, manipulating goggle, cutting chain, ms: man places goggles on another, turns around, various presentations of smiling goggled heads ms man complains about goggles messing with him, “oh yeah?..listen, bud...”, giving him headache, turns out he has vision problem, more factory workers (woman in hair net, man looking at gears, men in leather aprons standing in a line) “Safety goggles mist fit the faces that wear them... get the goggles right behind the ears...before the eyes...on the nose”