Optician more important and dignified. Far-sighted or aging colonial Americans imported spectacles from Europe. Spectacles were primarily for the affluent and literate colonists, who required a valuable and precious appliance. Benjamin Franklin in the 1780s developed the bifocal. Bifocal lenses advanced little in the first half of the 19th century. The terms bifocal and trifocal were introduced in London by John Isaac Hawkins, whose trifocals were patented in 1827. In 1884 B. M. Hanna was granted patents on two forms of bifocals which become commercially standardized as the "cemented" and "perfection" bifocals. Both had the serious faults of ugly appearance, fragility,
The Red Spectacles realize the threat Koichi imposes, that his return is more dangerous than anyone could realize. Several of the cast members are voice actors and appeared in "Urusei Yatsura", which Oshii worked on as chief director and head writer. "The Red Spectacles" is probably Oshii's most literate feature work. Not only, dialogue and narrative parts are prominent over "drama" but the film contains a variety of philosophical concepts such as Free will and Determinism, mentioned through fables, like ""The Magnet and the Iron Sands"" and ""The Ogre Saved by the Fisherman"", or through classic poet-authors quotes, Shakespeare and Pushkin. The characters