The earpieces still looks like a match, but the area between the earpiece and the lense portion of the frame is longer on the screen used piece. The area actually looks like it has been welded or something along those lines.
I think the screen caps brought a great deal of clarity here. I think we have nailed the ebay pair very well, which will make many people happy as is, but for a screen accurate pair, I think some more work will be needed.
-Bryan
Well, from this picture, it appears there was no soldering on the frames, and also looks very much like the townsend glasses, moreso than the screencaps (the bridge is seamless, and the whole front is gold). Is this screenused?
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Nope, this is the ebay pair, which is built on townsend glasses.
But I don't get how you can argue with the screencaps. There's nothing more accurate than the pair seen on screen.
-Fred
But I don't get how you can argue with the screencaps. There's nothing more accurate than the pair seen on screen.
-Fred
Who's arguing with the screencaps? :confused
-Sarge
Well I hope it's clear what I meant by it now, which was a question as to the origin of the picture. the key phrase was "from this picture".Quote from Pirateslife: "Well, from this picture, it appears there was no soldering on the frames, and also looks very much like the townsend glasses, moreso than the screencaps (the bridge is seamless, and the whole front is gold)."
To me, I read that as, "these glasses appear to be more accurate than the screen used glasses"
I understand how that can happen, because when I was getting caps, I thought those glasses were from the movie as well, but I wasn't able to find this scene anywhere in the film. That's when I realized the pictures posted were from the ebay auction, not the movie. But after the screen caps were posted, the glasses in the caps should be considered the ultimate canon on that prop (assuming it wasn't a stunt set).
-Fred
What I'm trying to say is it is possible that the frames were adjusted and the glasses used in the movie are purely the round townsends, only modified.
The glasses are an off the shelf set of "Ben Franklin" style glasses. We made the loops from scratch to fit lenses that were colored and custom ground from our eyeglass department. Unfortunately, there was only one set made of these glasses. The same pair of glasses were later redone and used again in "Click". I have not seen this movie but they should be in there.
Here's to hoping that you hear back from him and he remembers where in the world he got them.
I've run every search string I can think of on google and I just keep coming across the same set of glasses over and over again.
-Fred
Just to be perfectly clear, I don't know that he actually made the originals, just that he worked in the same shop and knows how they were made.
-Sarge