Full title reads: "Starfish - Down to the sea with microscope and Movie Camera. Photography by the famous Pathe Micro-Cinematic Process.
Seascape shot. Intertitle reads: "The starfish lives a contented life and often dies a natural death." C/U of a starfish. Water is splashed over it. "The...
Full title reads: "Starfish - Down to the sea with microscope and Movie Camera. Photography by the famous Pathe Micro-Cinematic Process.
Seascape shot. Intertitle reads: "The starfish lives a contented life and often dies a natural death." C/U of a starfish. Water is splashed over it. "The starfish grows tough whiskers (these are 100,000 times bigger than life)". C/U shot of part of the starfish. "He wears his lungs on the outside." C/U of lungs of starfish. Various shots of parts of the starfish - its suction cups, its arms, spikes, pincers, etc. The starfish is prodded with a pencil and a brush.
Note: this was originally stored in can EP 141 and was a Pathe Pictorial item.
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