:48:01
Not the clean look
that parents like
:48:04
You could walk dogs, that's done
:48:07
Dog shepherd, no thanks
:48:09
As far as animals go,
I already gave
:48:13
I'd like to be a caretaker
:48:16
To look after houses,
look after guard dogs
:48:20
There are so many big houses...
:48:23
So many rooms...
:48:32
I check out plane-trees
The dead ones...
:48:36
I'm a specialist
:48:38
You treat them?
:48:40
No, I'm an academic,
college professor...
:48:44
What I do is... research...
:48:47
So who treats them?
:48:48
Technicians.
I stop by to check them
:48:52
In the lab, we want to breed
a resistant strain
:48:55
To what?
:48:57
A fungus that's like cancer.
Serato cistis fimbriata
:49:01
But it's called ''tinted canker''
:49:04
It invades the tree and kills it
:49:06
We can't stop it, not yet
:49:09
All plane-trees are doomed
:49:12
When?
:49:14
Within 30 years, unless we solve it
:49:18
But it takes money...
:49:21
Bread
:49:27
Took us 25 years to find out
the G.I.s brought it in 1944
:49:30
To Southern France.
To Italy, too
:49:33
Not to Normandy: few plane-trees
:49:35
But in Marseilles...
:49:37
U.S. weapons arrived in wooden crates
that were left to rot
:49:42
Made of diseased U.S.
plane-tree wood
:49:45
They're contagious for years!
:49:48
The fungus spreads slowly
:49:50
The epidemic began...
:49:53
We understood too late
:49:55
How dumb!
:49:56
But to do nothing...
:49:59
to stop the plague is even dumber