Geronimo1967
Its odd to hear Pete Smith delivering a more straight narrative, but he does it quite authoritatively as we see a few historical scenarios that illustrate just how the accidental discovery of an element that glowed in the dark led Marie Curie to discover this highly toxic element that was amongst the rarest on earth. It needed a mammoth degree of refining from its source ore to yield the tiniest amount of its salt but this process revealed, somewhat miraculously, that despite its lethal qualities it also had remarkable curative powers, too! Its quite a revelatory short feature this that demonstrates just how much luck and sheer determination, especially at times in history when technology didnt exist, was involved and the significant levels...