Mining For Radium (1937)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this issue. Titles read: “Mining FOR RADIUM“. Brief M/S of French scientist Madame Marie Curie - or possibly her daughter Irene Joliot Curie. In Czechoslovakia we see several shots at the Jachymo Mines where pitchblende is mined for radium deposits; rocks are transported through tunnels in crates, loaded onto elevators and out into the open air. C/U of three lumps of pitchblende and a bowl of black gunk. Bowls of white powder in diminishing sizes, presumably illustrating the numerous tests to find a tiny pinpoint of the radioactive element. At the Jachymo Institute (hospital) we see patients undergoing treatments. A man lying on a bed has some kind of radioactive pads directed on his shoulder; another man takes a radioactive bath; some people sit in a room and inhale a radiation potion emanating from a covered silver cauldron in the centre of a room. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GRE