The Crazy Ray

The Crazy Ray 1925

6.76

A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.

1925

Sea Urchins

Sea Urchins 1929

6.30

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'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.

1929

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers 1921

7.00

A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.

1921

Miquette and Her Mother

Miquette and Her Mother 1934

7.00

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.

1934

Moonlight

Moonlight 1932

1

While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.

1932