Mysterious Heart AKA Le Coeur Immortel (1959)

France. Various shots of French scientist Louis Rey, breaking an egg in his Laboratory, dissecting the chicken’s embryo contained in the egg, he then cuts off the heart and places it in a mixture of glycerine, which enables the fragile piece of flesh to resist freezing. of chicken’s heart being dipped into container filled with liquid nitrogen, the life of the frozen heart is stopped. After several weeks the heart is placed into a container filled with a nourishing substance to unfreeze it, where the heart again beats at its normal speed. CU. of the heart beating. . FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bull