Movie Prop - does anyone know what this actually is?
I picked this up in a collection of medical props used in a war film on the Gold Coast. Looks like some kind of eye chart but does anyone know exactly what it is?
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I have not seen that format used but appears to be of some standard.
http://precision-vision.com/product/tumblingeacuitysighttestfoldingchart/
The numbers on the right are metric, so it is from a country that used the metric system (the 6/6 would have been 20/20 in the U.S.).
That's all I got!
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"6/6" is metres and "20/20" is feet. It's based on the Snellen Distance vision chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_chart
Basically for those who can't read.
Thanks David. This must be one of the earliest examples. It is printed on canvas with wooden handles which I guess made it fairly easy to use when travelling.
There have been quite a few auctions of movie props on the Gold Coast over the years. The eye chart was part of a lot of medical props that were used in films made on the coast. It is possible that some were used for more than one film. It appears that the producers sourced genuine vintage articles for many of the films rather than make replicas. There were some quite unusual medical props amongst the lots that I purchased.
It was used in the French army in 1940, including the intervals of the Maginot Line.
It is another of the movie props for a film on the Gold Coast. I have a couple of boxes of stuff but no flux capacitor as yet.
I remember seeing the large red leather from Maltese Falcon up for auction about 10 yrs ago, very neat piece!
From some information I have come across on the item. Condensed slightly - ''Bretton Cluses dynamo -generator French made 1939-1945 hand driven dynamo / generator flashlight used by cinema / theatre owners , by railway workers and by military person''.