Madame Curie

Duration: 0:24:00

Year Published: 1943

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians : Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "Madame Curie". Recounts the story of the discovery of radium. Traces the long, arduous work of Marie and Pierre Curie in separating radium from pitchblende after they had ascertained the presence of the new, active element in the ore. Stresses the scientific methodology and processes they followed in identifying radium, and characterizes the stimulating personalities of the couple., Abridged from the feature film. Recounts the story of the discovery of radium. Traces the long, arduous work of the Curies in separating radium from pitchblende after they had ascertained the presence of the new, active element in the ore. Stresses the scientific methodology and processes they followed in identifying radium, and characterizes the stimulating personalities of the couple.

Complete Record: , Abridged from the feature film. Recounts the story of the discovery of radium. Traces the long, arduous work of the Curies in separating radium from pitchblende after they had ascertained the presence of the new, active element in the ore. Stresses the scientific methodology and processes they followed in identifying radium, and characterizes the stimulating personalities of the couple.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.