Name: The Seahorse
Director: Jean Painlevé
Released: 1934
Duration: 14 min

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Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright.&nbsp;We see a female place her eggs in a male&#x27;s pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions.

The Seahorse

Français

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Max Schreck

A short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.

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&quot;Le m&eacute;tier comporte ses joies pour ceux qui aiment la mer, pour ceux qui l&rsquo;aiment jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; l&rsquo;exclusion de toute autre possibilit&eacute; de joie naturelle.&nbsp;Patauger jour et nuit par n&rsquo;importe quel temps m&ecirc;me o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on sait ne rien trouver, de l&rsquo;eau au nombril ou aux chevilles, fouiller partout, algue ou pieuvre, s&rsquo;hypnotiser sur une mare sinistre o&ugrave; tout vous guette alors que rien n&rsquo;y vit &mdash; extase de n&rsquo;importe quel intoxiqu&eacute; y compris le chien de chasse kilom&eacute;trant en tous sens avec un plaisir infini le champ dont chaque repli cache, au plus, une vieille patate.&quot; 
 
Jean Painlev&eacute;, &quot;Les Pieds dans l&rsquo;Eau&quot;,&nbsp;Voil&agrave;,&nbsp;4 mai 1935.

Ce programme r&eacute;unit 5&nbsp;courts m&eacute;trages r&eacute;alis&eacute;s par Jean Painlev&eacute; : Le Vampire, La Pieuvre, L&#x27;Hippocampe, Comment naissent les m&eacute;duses,&nbsp;Ac&eacute;ra ou le bal des sorci&egrave;res.

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FR - HD

Underwater photography presents the octopus: breathing, swimming, eating, dying.

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At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own. Another produces eggs, sometimes self-fertilized. Some single eggs become buds with colonies. Another clump gathered at low tide consists of filaments of a colony - plumes with poison ends. In images taking 72 hours, we see filaments grow and produce a feeding organ from which a plume emerges. New jellyfish emerge from buds twice a day at set times to form a new colonies.

Comment naissent des méduses

english

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish&#x27;s cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.

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A close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using magnification 200,000 times normal size, we see a rock urchin&#x27;s spines with suckers on the end; a drawing illustrates how they work. A sea urchin walks toward a rock. We see three-fingered jaws - pedicellaria at the end of flexible stems - take in algae and other bits. We also see cilia less than 0.001 ml in length; their motion constant, creating whirlpools. On the shore again, we watch the setting sun. Occasional titles in French tell us what to watch for.

Sea Urchins

An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it&#x27;s time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature&#x27;s rate. Then they&#x27;re born and propel away.

The Love Life of the Octopus

A short overview on the life and importance of diatoms, shown through a microscope.

Diatoms

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Alan Hale

Arthur Hoyt

Blanche Friderici

Charles C. Wilson

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Claude-Jean Philippe présente le film

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In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland&#x27;s unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.

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Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a &quot;public figure,&quot; a rascal who&#39;s a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he&#39;s fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie&#39;s aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?

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Marseille, 1930. Justin is a local estimated gangster, but he will have to deal with his enemy, Esposito, the chef of a dangerous criminal organisation.

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