Hearing Aids (1957)

Shepherd’s Market, London. Modern hearing aids are contrasted with old fashioned ear trumpets. C/Us of man in a dressing gown holding an ear trumpet to his ear. A woman shouts into the ear trumpet. He takes it out of his ear then puts his finger in his ear wiggling it around. C/U of woman in white lace vintage blouse looking at a silver ear trumpet. She picks up an antique hearing device - a golden shell shaped piece which fits into the ear. She holds it up to her ear. Various modern hearing aid devices are shown. They are all decorated to disguise the fact that they are hearing aids. A woman shows the workings of a hearing aid attached to a child’s Alice band. C/U of young girl having the Alice band fitted. Narrator explains how one woman in ten doesn’t hear as well as she should do but would probably refuse to wear a hearing aid on principle. C/U of glamorous woman putting on a rhinestone decorated hearing aid. Looks like a fancy earring. C/U of the hearing aid being attached to t