This film discusses the secretion of digestive juices and the digestion and absorption of food. Scenes include: peristalsis in animal esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines; a procedure for collecting gastric juice; an experiment showing gastric juices effect on a coagulated egg; stimulation of an excised animal saliva gland and its secretion; a demonstration of how saliva works on starches; a demonstration of pancreas and liver; and an experiment showing the effect of bile on cream.
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte.
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war.
The mangiest pup at Pete's Pooch Palace catches the Captain's eye. He takes it home, but Mama is less than thrilled; she forbids it to stay in the house.
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