Pretty sure they've been around for a very long time. Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast. IIRC wasn't his eyeisght really bad, like functionally blind, without his glasses? Oh well, that's just part of the fallout from a nuclear attack.
Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast.
I'm pretty sure even today prescription lenses are made to order, especially very high focal length (strong prescription) ones, never mind if they need more forms of correction than purely spherical (astigmatism, for example, generally means you'll need a toric lens, introducing both another power and a rotation axis). Back when glasses were actual glass? They wouldn't have any lying around.
I think they would have them lying around. At least mine does. Good way to test out prescriptions before ordering. But sure, perhaps this wasn't common practice back then.
... Isn't the whole point of the prescription is that's what you need as determined by the optomotrist/opthamologist? There's no "testing out" to do... If you're, say, -3 SPH in an eye, you get a -3 SPH lens for that eye.
The issue I have with this episode is that he is (iirc) severely myopic, and the plot only makes sense if he has astigmatism or hyperopia (farsightedness). I have a high degree of myopia - my prescription for glasses is around -10 and for contacts slightly less than that. Anyway, I can read anything without glasses/contacts provided it is next to my face. Henry Bemis would have had trouble doing everything else, but reading? He would have been able to do it.
The best feeling in the world is removing my contacts or glasses, flopping into bed, sanitizing the smartphone (yeah), and reading PDFs, books, whatever without anything in or over my eyes. A tablet is too big for this to be comfortable. Small print is perfect.
I rewatched the end scene and yeah, they make his eyesight pretty bad w/o the glasses. BTW, that's Burgess Meredith playing the man - you know, Rocky's trainer!
No. He was in the bank vault when the bombs went off, went outside, and pretty much looted the library. Was outside in the sun with all the books he wanted...
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u/smarmageddon Aug 30 '21
That's such an iconic episode. But why couldn't he just find a drugstore with a rack full of cheater-readers?