Catalog of Pathex Motion Pictures for the Home (1927)

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58 Pathex Motion Pictures "Five Million Years Ago" From Pathe Review No. S 11 One Reel $1.75 Science traces the history of the earth from rocks, pieces of wood and fossils resurrected by archaeologists. Reconstructing before the camera a plant fifty thousand centuries old. "Stories in Stone" From Pathe News No. S 12 One Reel $1.75 Deep down in caves throughout the world are messages to the scientist, written in the formations of stalactites and stalagmites, concerning the early days of the earth, while fossil formations throw new light on earliest man's places of refuge from his enemies and the elements. Novelty Films and Miscellaneous Features "Cyphrocania Gigas" No. M 1 One Reel $1.00 The walking stick insect of Java, is hundreds of times larger than the familiar one of the United States. "The Germination of a Broad Bean" No. M 2 One Reel $1.00 Jack and the Beanstalk brought right to the youngsters — eight days' growth of a bean is concentrated into two minutes of the film. "Japanese Lilies" No. M 3 One Reel $1.00 Tiger-lilies and other species are shown in the processes of opening, the folded petals breaking loose from the bud and recurving in bold lines of beauty. "The Phyllium" No. M 4 One Reel $1.00 The marvelous tropical "dead-leaf insect," which can hardly be told from the plant in which it lives, which is almost physically helpless when removed from it, and which even in its tremulous and jerky movements is like a stem-bound leaf in the wind. Truly a wonder of Nature. "The Pitcher Plant" No. M 5 One Reel $1.00 A plant that actually eats insects! This tropical plant is shown folding its leaves over flies and other insects and absorbing them as food. Some of the pitchers are emptied and it is surprising what they will reveal. "The Sensitive Plant" No. M 6 One Reel $1.00 A Hindu scientist holds that all plants possess qualities of feeling like those of animal creatures. In this film you may see the "Sensitive Plant" fold up at a touch, droop beneath a blow, and collapse under heat waves.