0 appears on the screen 41 when switch 51 is opened the bright outer segments of the segmented numeral 52 disappears from the screen 41 numerals zero to nine may be read out of the liquid crystal display cell 30a when a voltage is applied to selected segments of the segmented numeral 52 fig7 shows alignment material 58 being evaporated at a large angle relative to the normal to a substrate 60 to form an alignment film 62 shown in fig8 and 9 when the alignment material 58 is evaporated on the substrate 60 from the evaporation source 56 at a large angle alignment film 62 is formed on the surface of the substrate 60 as shown in fig8 the alignment film 62 has a film growth 64 therein as shown in fig9 liquid crystal material 66 is placed on the alignment film 62 molecules 68 of the liquid crystal material 66 which are adjacent to the alignment film 62 are aligned in the direction of the film growth 64 of the alignment film 62 as shown in fig1 which is similar to fig6 the alignment film 70 has a pattern etched therein the etched alignment film 70 is on an electrode film 72 on the substrate 74 an unetched alignment film 71 is on the electrode film 73 on substrate 75 the plane of polarization of polarizer 78 is at a 90 u00b0 angle with respect to plane of polarization of polarizer 76 when a voltage is not applied between the electrode films 72 and 73 by not closing switch 80 the etched pattern in alignment film 70 is made visible.