Top billed cast

1. 

   Pete Smith

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Margaret Bert

   Nurse (uncredited)

3. 

   André Cheron

   Henri Antoine Becquerel (uncredited)

4. 

   James Conaty

   American Scientist (uncredited)

5. 

   Eddie Hart

   Photographer (uncredited)

6. 

   Emmett Vogan

   Pierre Curie (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-29

It’s odd to hear Pete Smith delivering a more straight narrative, but he does it quite authoritatively as we see a few historical scenarios that illustrate just how the accidental discovery of an element that glowed in the dark led Marie Curie to discover this highly toxic element that was amongst the rarest on earth. It needed a mammoth degree of refining from it’s source ore to yield the tiniest amount of it’s salt but this process revealed, somewhat miraculously, that despite it’s lethal qualities it also had remarkable curative powers, too! It’s quite a revelatory short feature t...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• radium
• short film