• The Spectacle Maker is a 1934 short film directed by John Farrow and starring Nora Cecil. It was Farrow's directorial debut. It was filmed in full three-strip...
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    The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, UK. The company was founded by a Royal Charter of Charles...
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    Zacharias Janssen (category Dutch scientific instrument makers)
    Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly...
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    Hans Lipperhey (category Dutch scientific instrument makers)
    Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain...
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    British Optical Association (category Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers)
    Science (IOSc) in 1962. In 1980, the BOA joined forces with the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (WCSM) and the Scottish Association of Opticians...
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    John Farrow (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
    of the charges the following year. At MGM Farrow wrote Last of the Pagans (1935), partly set in Tahiti, and directed a short, The Spectacle Maker (1934)...
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    1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema. Taylor began his career in films in 1934...
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    Car. She played a princess in John Farrow's 21-minute MGM short The Spectacle Maker. It was Farrow's directorial debut and was filmed in full three-strip...
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  • published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from December 1965 to July 1966, and one original to the book. The 1934 film The Spectacle Maker, based...
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    The first record of a telescope comes from the Netherlands in 1608. It is in a patent filed by Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey with the States...
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