L'Oeuvre Scientifique de Pasteur.

A somewhat incoherent but extremely lively, though a trifle melodramatic, account of Pasteur's principal researches and discoveries in biochemistry, bacteriology and medicine during the period 1866-1895, co-directed by celebrated French biologist and scientific cineaaste Jean Painleve (1902-1989). Re- enactments of some of Pasteur's classic experiments and observations on crystal formation, fermentation, aerobic and anaerobic respiration, streptococcal infections, anthrax, the diseases of silkworms, etc. alternate with dramatic highlights of his demolition of the theory of spontaneous generation, his cure of the young Joseph Meister from rabies and some quite extraordinary cinemicography of the fermentation of yeast, bacterial cultures and various pathogenic microrganisms. Rather superficial and extremley dated both in its historiography and its dramatic style, but far livelier and infinitely more enjoyable thn some recent historiography of Pasteur.