Radioactive

00:31:12,621 --> 00:31:13,622 [laughs] 439 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,875 Congratulations, Professor Curie. 440 00:31:19,628 --> 00:31:21,380 [Irène giggles] 441 00:31:28,053 --> 00:31:31,098 -[Marie] Where are we going? -Somewhere I think you’re going to like. 442 00:31:31,181 --> 00:31:34,476 But I’m tired, I’m pregnant and it’s freezing. 443 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,521 Loie Fuller has invited us to a séance. 444 00:31:37,605 --> 00:31:40,941 Loie Fuller? Spiritualism? Oh, you cannot be serious. 445 00:31:41,025 --> 00:31:42,985 It’s a science like any other. 446 00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:45,613 Don’t talk such rot. There’s nothing to see or analyze. 447 00:31:46,530 --> 00:31:47,906 You can’t see radioactivity. 448 00:31:47,990 --> 00:31:49,992 But that’s completely different. 449 00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:57,458 [Pierre] Good evening, Loie. 450 00:31:57,541 --> 00:32:01,920 We live in a world where invisible light 451 00:32:03,005 --> 00:32:05,716 can pass through flesh 452 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,927 and expose the bones beneath it. 453 00:32:09,011 --> 00:32:10,512 -Using X-gazes... -[Marie laughs] 454 00:32:10,596 --> 00:32:13,307 -[Pierre shushes] -...I will call out... 455 00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:18,771 the presence of Beethoven as it becomes clear to me. 456 00:32:19,605 --> 00:32:22,566 X-gazes? As in uranium rays? 457 00:32:22,650 --> 00:32:23,692 Yes. 458 00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:32,451 In a little while, the portrait of Beethoven will appear... 459 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:35,954 on this photographic plate. 460 00:32:36,038 --> 00:32:38,123 And now Beethoven is going to come back from the dead. 461 00:32:38,207 --> 00:32:41,835 ["Sonata Opus 27 No. 2 - 3rd Movement - Moonlight" by Beethoven] 462 00:32:43,212 --> 00:32:45,756 She’s using our science to further her work. 463 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:48,008 All scientists work on previous work. 464 00:32:48,676 --> 00:32:50,052 You call this science? 465 00:32:51,136 --> 00:32:53,806 This could change science forever. 466 00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:57,184 Do you not understand we’ve already changed science forever? 467 00:32:57,935 --> 00:32:59,061 [Pierre sighs] 468 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,579 [Beethoven fades] 469 00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:25,879 [coughing] 470 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:57,661 Yeah, it’s stronger on the other. 471 00:34:00,414 --> 00:34:01,790 This is definitely more refined. 472 00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:05,627 We’ve had another submission. 473 00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:07,629 What did they want? 474 00:34:07,713 --> 00:34:09,757 Radioactive smelling salts. 475 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,550 As a cure for baldness. 476 00:34:12,593 --> 00:34:14,428 -What did you say? -We don’t own radium, 477 00:34:14,511 --> 00:34:18,390 we don’t have a patent and you are free to do as you will with it. 478 00:34:18,474 --> 00:34:20,934 If we did have a patent, we’d have a bigger laboratory. 479 00:34:21,435 --> 00:34:22,436 [Pierre] Mm. 480 00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:25,898 I know, the possibilities of science are more important-- 481 00:34:25,981 --> 00:34:28,817 If we owned it, then people wouldn’t be able to enjoy the possibilities of it. 482 00:34:28,901 --> 00:34:31,528 But it’s trusting others to see the possibilities that I’m not sure of. 483 00:34:31,612 --> 00:34:35,115 Oh, people can see the possibilities, believe me. 484 00:34:37,785 --> 00:34:39,203 Radioactive matches. 485 00:34:40,496 --> 00:34:43,457 -For your radioactive cigarettes. -[Marie laughs] 486 00:34:43,540 --> 00:34:45,417 Radioactive chocolate. 487 00:34:46,126 --> 00:34:48,086 Radioactive toothpaste. 488 00:34:48,170 --> 00:34:52,466 There’s a letter in here about radioactive beauty powder. 489 00:34:52,549 --> 00:34:56,178 Loie Fuller wants us to do a radioactive jacket for her dance. 490 00:34:56,261 --> 00:34:58,430 Don’t worry, I told her we don’t make jackets. 491 00:34:58,514 --> 00:34:59,973 [laughs] 492 00:35:00,057 --> 00:35:01,892 Have you heard there’s a dance craze 493 00:35:01,975 --> 00:35:03,811 on Broadway based on our work? 494 00:35:03,894 --> 00:35:05,854 The Piff Paff Pouf. 495 00:35:05,938 --> 00:35:08,190 -[Marie] What have we done? -[Pierre chuckles] 496 00:35:09,233 --> 00:35:10,526 What’s that? 497 00:35:13,153 --> 00:35:14,279 That’s nothing. 498 00:35:17,366 --> 00:35:19,535 Henri Danlos, the dermatologist, 499 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:21,411 came to me the other day, very excited. 500 00:35:22,746 --> 00:35:26,416 He put some radium chloride on a tumor... 501 00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,837 and it showed some considerable shrinkage. 502 00:35:31,672 --> 00:35:32,714 Shrinkage? 503 00:35:35,050 --> 00:35:40,472 Two thousand years, cancer, the uncurable illness. 504 00:35:40,556 --> 00:35:41,682 Can you imagine? 505 00:35:43,517 --> 00:35:45,811 They’re starting a study group. 506 00:35:45,894 --> 00:35:48,105 He thinks our radium could cure cancer? 507 00:35:49,064 --> 00:35:50,732 Danlos is just the start. 5...