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Jim Frazier is the radical Australian optics innovator whose visionary work has paved the way for much of the world's cutting-edge 3D technology, as well as revolutionising aspects of fighter-jet flying, heart surgery, covert surveillance and cinema entertainment. His life spent in Pacific mangroves, wild jungles and insect-filled caves, and the Oscar-winner’s riches-to-rags-to-riches story includes court battles and patents fights, as he ‘breaks the laws of physics’ with his new lens. With exclusive interviews from Academy Award winning film-makers, world-renowned wildlife cinematographers, inventors and optical innovators including Hoyt Yeatman, Peter Parks and Lenny Lipton.