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[Boil Your Water]
Also known as Boil Your Water in the USA
(1911) France
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes production; distributed by Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as Boil Your Water by The General Film Company, Incorporated, on 21 April 1911; in a split-reel with Tom Pouce suit une femme (1911).
Educational.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? This film is a microscopic examination of a drop of stagnant water. The film though specific, is of sufficient interest to appeal to everybody in the moving picture theaters. The scientist assistant is seen getting some water from a nearby stream, then in the laboratory the chemist makes a slide, utilizing only a drop of water, and this he places under the tube of the microscope. As be examines it the things he sees are thrown upon the screen, and it is marvelous indeed the number of tiny though dreadful looking bugs that inhabit this one single drop of water. Among other things shown is the germ that causes typhoid fever, magnified some 40,000 times; also a daphnia, a most interesting looking individual; an ostracoda, who wriggles most delightfully; also a rotifer, who is noted principally for his peculiar method of spinning. Another member of the family is the copepods, carrying her eggs, which look like a couple of bunches of Malaga grapes. The ostracoda meanders along by means of a spiral spring which he seems to release and thus shoot himself into space. Finally after numerous other organisms are shown, the scientist boils the water, filters it and shows it finally clear and palatable, health giving and free from disease-producing bacteria. This film is not only interesting, but exceedingly instructive, and is released at the beginning of the summer season, when great danger of typhoid lurks in every glassful of water taken unboiled. Help yourself by helping others.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 September 2023.
References: Sloan-Loud p. 27 : Website-IMDb.
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