Crystals, Their Making, Habits and Beauty (1914)
The best specimens of crystals are those formed by Nature's own hand from mineral substances, but this picture shows how samples of high beauty can be produced under man's guidance. Incidentally the demonstration is a witness to the harmony and regularity of the laws of nature. The youthful chemist who is seen gravely at work in the kitchen has selected interesting experiments, and from substances as easily understandable as table salt, epsom salt and gunpowder proceeds to illustrate how azobenzel, toluene nitrate, and other compounds that give the tongue trouble, are very soothing to the eye. The limitation of the picture to five hundred feet will be regretted by many spectators who are not content with what is unavoidably only "a snatch of grace beyond the reach of art." But the film shows beauties that will leave those who see it in that very acceptable mental state of wishing that it was at least twice its length.
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