:24:00
I see. And your experiment
was a success.
:24:02
To the contrary, my experiment
was a complete failure.
:24:05
Not one of the rocks
I have exposed to the sun
:24:07
affected the plates in anyway.
:24:08
See, there they are.
They're all black
:24:09
every one of them.
:24:10
Then how did you explain...
:24:11
Now, look at this one, please.
:24:13
That has been exposed
am I right?
:24:15
Light has reached
:24:16
Oh, yes. That has been exposed.
:24:18
This plate was lying
in this drawer quite by accident.
:24:22
I didn't even know it was there.
:24:24
It's the drawer that I keep
some of my specimens in.
:24:26
And when I was putting my rocks
back into the drawer
:24:28
one of them must have fallen
on this plate
:24:30
without my knowing it.
:24:31
I discovered it yesterday.
:24:33
This is the rock that
I have not yet exposed to the sun
:24:36
it's a piece of mineral
called pitch blende.
:24:41
To be sure
there could be no mistake
:24:43
last night I myself
hide in this room
:24:45
in complete darkness.
:24:46
Took this rock, which had never
been exposed to the sun
:24:48
and placed it
on a photographic plate.
:24:52
I put this metal key
between the stone
:24:55
and the plate like this
:24:58
so that it would be photographed
:24:59
if any light rays
came from the stone.
:25:04
Half hour ago
I developed the plate.
:25:07
This is the result.
:25:09
You mean, then, that...
:25:11
there is something about that rock
:25:12
that gives off rays of its own.
:25:14
Rays powerful enough to go
through black paper
:25:17
and affect this photographic plate.
:25:18
That, Monsieur, must be so.
:25:21
Incredible.
:25:22
It is incredible.
:25:24
It's as if they were
a piece of the sun
:25:26
locked up in here.
:25:29
Strange. Very strange.
:25:32
What could it be? What could be
the nature of radiation?
:25:35
What could be the origin of it?
:25:37
Perhaps we shall never know.
:25:40
It was very kind of you
to take me
:25:41
to Dr. Becquerel's laboratory.
:25:43
Not at all...
:25:45
Dr. Curie
:25:47
I want to thank you
also for allowing me
:25:49
to do my experiments here
in your laboratory.
:25:51
I couldn't have done this
if it weren't
:25:52
for Natural Science Industry
:25:54
for allowing me of your kindness.
:25:55
You finished that already?
:25:56
Yes, I had to do it quickly
:25:57
because I should not
have much time from now on
:25:59
to come to the laboratory.