Il était une fois... la vie (1987–1988): Season 1, Episode 19 - Les os et le squelette - full transcript
Is life, is life, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
Sing the song of life
Every heartbeat's a miracle
Feel the rhythm growing
Day by day as we go
Look inside, your body's humming
There are million drums that are drumming
Fill your lungs, get ready
Celebrating the joy, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
THE BONES AND THE SKELETON
Take two minerals, calcium
and phosphorous
stick them together and what do you get?
The human skeleton, made of over
two hundred separate bones.
Its job is to support your body
and protect its most vulnerable parts:
the brain,
the spinal cord,
the lungs,
the heart.
It's a light framework,
barely 20% of the body's mass.
If it were made of metal
it would weigh four or five times more.
Imagine!
But we are talking of adult bones.
The finished product.
What about the young skeleton?
Well, it has a lot of cartilage.
These are cartilage cells.
In the nuclear control room of
these cells, the operator is hard at work.
Aha! What?
Whew! It was only a bad dream
about an attack by
those dratted osteoblasts.
Hey, Look down there!
It's our friends.
Well, children, it looks as though
we’re in for some exercise.
Yes indeed! These cartilage cells are too
soft
to make a good skeleton.
Those minerals, phosphates and calcium
have come to turn it into bone
with the help of Vitamin D.
These cells are the osteoblasts.
When they get here, you'll see what
happens.
Oh, no! I just had another dream about
those awful osteoblasts.
What? It's not a dream!
Red alert We’re under attack.
Listen, men,
the osteoblasts are on the march.
They are treacherous bone cells,
detested by loyal cartilage.
But we shall stand fast - they shall not
turn us into bone!
Hard, ugly bone!
Walled in and layered.
Either we disappear or we fuse.
Is that what you want?
We will fight to the last man!
So be it! Death to the osteoblasts!
The osteoblasts are off to conquer
the cartilage tissues.
The charge of the osteoblast brigade
vitamin D warriors
aided by Phosphorus and Calcium.
Hey!
They've got strength on their side,
all right.
They're gorgeous, I'm sure they'll win!
The bone-forming cells must win the
battle to create a strong skeleton.
Tell me, Professor, is the bone
completely hardened by now?
The osteoblasts' victory will not be
complete for several years
in the course of normal development,
Bone, like Rome, is not built in a day--
and besides,
the flexibility of the immature skeleton
protects the bones from serious injury.
-Watch!
-Okay!
Young skeletons can take
a few knocks.
Kids can be rough and tumble.
Later on, not so much.
What's going on? What are they doing?
Who are those guys?
They're here again.
They're eating bone!
-But that's impossible!
-Yes! Look, they're eating bone.
Those are just the osteoclasts.
They break down any part of the bone
that's getting too big and bothersome.
An osteoclast acts as
a counterbalance, you see.
Those two types of cell actually
complement each other.
One builds
while the other trims off the extra
so the skeleton doesn't just keep growing.
Without the demolishers, the bones
would take over everything!
And apart from that, they help us by
creating spaces for circulation:
bringing air, food, and orders.
Really enormous job, that!
He's not right in the head.
l haven't even finished it, you swine!
Sorry about that, mate!
I'm going to finish the job!
Slurp! You'd better step aside, Shorty!
Go on, just you try and make me!
Let's go.
Do you see the paradox?
The only way to keep bone healthy
is to break it as you build.
And so, the tiny skeleton grows up.
As I was saying, today we will study
the structure of the human body.
Let's begin, then, with the bones of
the leg.
As soon as Claire has finished
daydreaming.
Good, now we can go on.
Man does not stand on his feet.
It's an entire balancing act.
Of the thirty-plus bones in the leg
only three of them touch the ground.
It's an extremely delicate balance.
Extremely delicate--that’s me! Look!
What exactly does
"delicate balance" mean?
-Ow.
-That does it! You two, out!
That should cool your heels a little!
Listen!
That'll show 'em.
Yes!
That's all for today, children.
Now go have fun in the snow.
Easy!
Bye Miss....
l hope we're all going to keep our
delicate balance!
Take your time-- I'll keep you company.
Don't wait for us you two, we’ll see you
later
Okay!
Your skiing's a lot better, Claire.
Soon, you'll be ready for the fast run.
We’ll be safe if we stick to this run.
That's odd. I remember
it being more to the right.
Happy landings, you two.
l don't think I've ever been this way
before.
Peter! Claire! Come back--
it's dangerous! They can't hear.
I need to go warn them!
We're going too fast! It's dangerous--
slow down!
-My leg hurts!
-Ow.
-Oh, Peter! Peter, where are you?
-Are you all right, Claire?
Please help me to get up.
l think my leg must be broken.
Mine must be broken too.
Hi! Whoops!
Hey, are you two all right?
‘Fraid not, Jumbo, I've broken my leg.
So has Peter.
Can you go and get some help?
Okay, but whatever you do, don't move!
Bye for now!
Hello, everybody!
And how are we feeling today, children?
Let me assure you, dear lady,
They'll soon be out of here,
believe me.
At their age,
bones don’t take long to knit.
Here, see for yourself.
That little fracture's nothing to write
home about.
It's just a trifle. Believe me.
She'll be out of her cast
in a matter of weeks.
And my poor son?
Now, let me see.... I've got the x-ray with
me. Here we are!
But this is serious.
It's a double fracture!
Now I am really worried.
There's absolutely no cause for concern,
my dear!
The bone has been set, and the wounds
cleaned and dressed.
That's the main thing.
Why haven't I got a cast, Doctor?
We preferred not to put any
foreign bodies
in contact with the wound.
That's why you have an exterior brace--
it's an excellent system
Now we can safely leave the healing to
the best doctor of all--Nature!
What a building site,
we can have a bit of fun here!
Follow me!
There you go!
Oh yes, very tasty, very nice, I like it!
That’s our police for you--
never there when you need 'em!
-Captain! Something's wrong!
-Whereabouts?
I don’t know where exactly,
I just feel it.
Very well then, we will keep our eyes
peeled,
Look there, up ahead.
Mayday. Send the lymphocyte units.
Meet us at Sector Y307.
Squadron 012 calling,
Lieutenant.
We're on our way, over and out.
OK for the macrophages.
We need some armored units
A force of StaphyIococci are attacking
the broken bone site.
Message received, Captain Peter,
My men could do with a little bit of
active service a-TEN-shun!
-Huh?
-March!
A slight fever, I see!
Just a few germs trying to make hay
in poor old Peter's leg!
l'll sort them out. With an antibiotic,
they'll never know what hit them.
Don't worry!
Enemy in sight!
-See what's coming?
-Huh?
We may be vastly outnumbered,
but... I have just decided to order a
strategic withdrawal.
Police...
Curses! Curses!
A germ life is no life at all.
Okay, we'd better escape this way.
Come on now, after me.
Come on now.
Curses! Curses!
Oh, I wish we could go home!
Don’t show your ignorance!
We're home now. It's too dangerous
with them on our tail.
I don't understand!
Have they gone mad?
Idiot!
We have no home of our own because
we're parasites!
Parasites, you bunch of numbskulls!
Understand? We have to borrow a body to
live in first
and then, after we've gained control,
we're set!
We will multiply and multiply
and become a great nation,
we will fulfill our destiny!
Well, well! My old friends.
This could be quite interesting.
Oh no!
Get off me! Get out of it, you horrible
little insects, before l... Aargh!
-Three cheers for the armed forces!
-Yes indeed!
At last...we can carry on rebuilding
the bone in peace.
And now
l suggest we begin delivering our oxygen
to the construction site.
As well as these materials.
This blood vessel's been cut,
how can we continue, Professor?
Never you worry, my child.
There are alternative routes to get us
back into circulation.
Okay, you've been up long enough
Come on, lie down for a bit.
This ought to cheer you up!
l thought you liked oranges better!
Whoops, deary me!
Need to trim this beard...
We seem to be feeling a great deal better
today, don’t we?
Yes, doctor, my son is improving.
Your bones seem to be knitting very nicely
indeed, young man.
Can I get up now Doctor?
Well....
We will have to see about that--it's
early days yet, you know.
And, if you walk on it again too soon,
you might re-injure it.
That wouldn't be smart.
l just hate staying in bed.
But, Peter, you're saving the energy
your body needs to repair the bone!
The new bone is still fragile!
Or it will break again!
And as for you, young lady, the cast
is coming off!
Doctor, tell me does a broken bone ever
regain its full strength?
Heavens, yes.
In fact it is a great deal stronger than
before at the site of the fracture.
Strong enough to carry 20 Claires,
or 1 tonne.
If you can imagine such a thing.
We can look forward to that.
Doctor, what makes the new bone so
healthy and strong?
Oh, it's quite simple, really.
First of all, you have the nutrients
brought in from outside
by the blood cells.
And the marrow of the broken bone has
an emergency supply
for such times.
And besides,
the body contains lots of
unstable calcium.
Hormones that steer this calcium
to the place where it's needed most.
We seem to be better.
Well, children, you're finally going
home tomorrow.
Now remember to take things easy at
first, won’t you?
Give me your hand dear...
Mm... your nails show a lack of calcium.
But you can get it back by eating plenty
of cheese, and drinking lots of milk.
l am quite sure that you'll find this sort
of diet most enjoyable.
And for you, Peter my boy, I am going to
prescribe lots of sunshine.
The sunlight will wake up the vitamin D.
And the faster the vitamins run with their
tiny loads of calcium
and phosphorus, the faster you'll be on
your feet and running too.
Take a road to wonder
Where the whys and the wherefores hide
Join us and discover
Celebrating the joy, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
Sing the song of life
Every heartbeat's a miracle
Feel the rhythm growing
Day by day as we go
Look inside, your body's humming
There are million drums that are drumming
Fill your lungs, get ready
Celebrating the joy, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life
THE BONES AND THE SKELETON
Take two minerals, calcium
and phosphorous
stick them together and what do you get?
The human skeleton, made of over
two hundred separate bones.
Its job is to support your body
and protect its most vulnerable parts:
the brain,
the spinal cord,
the lungs,
the heart.
It's a light framework,
barely 20% of the body's mass.
If it were made of metal
it would weigh four or five times more.
Imagine!
But we are talking of adult bones.
The finished product.
What about the young skeleton?
Well, it has a lot of cartilage.
These are cartilage cells.
In the nuclear control room of
these cells, the operator is hard at work.
Aha! What?
Whew! It was only a bad dream
about an attack by
those dratted osteoblasts.
Hey, Look down there!
It's our friends.
Well, children, it looks as though
we’re in for some exercise.
Yes indeed! These cartilage cells are too
soft
to make a good skeleton.
Those minerals, phosphates and calcium
have come to turn it into bone
with the help of Vitamin D.
These cells are the osteoblasts.
When they get here, you'll see what
happens.
Oh, no! I just had another dream about
those awful osteoblasts.
What? It's not a dream!
Red alert We’re under attack.
Listen, men,
the osteoblasts are on the march.
They are treacherous bone cells,
detested by loyal cartilage.
But we shall stand fast - they shall not
turn us into bone!
Hard, ugly bone!
Walled in and layered.
Either we disappear or we fuse.
Is that what you want?
We will fight to the last man!
So be it! Death to the osteoblasts!
The osteoblasts are off to conquer
the cartilage tissues.
The charge of the osteoblast brigade
vitamin D warriors
aided by Phosphorus and Calcium.
Hey!
They've got strength on their side,
all right.
They're gorgeous, I'm sure they'll win!
The bone-forming cells must win the
battle to create a strong skeleton.
Tell me, Professor, is the bone
completely hardened by now?
The osteoblasts' victory will not be
complete for several years
in the course of normal development,
Bone, like Rome, is not built in a day--
and besides,
the flexibility of the immature skeleton
protects the bones from serious injury.
-Watch!
-Okay!
Young skeletons can take
a few knocks.
Kids can be rough and tumble.
Later on, not so much.
What's going on? What are they doing?
Who are those guys?
They're here again.
They're eating bone!
-But that's impossible!
-Yes! Look, they're eating bone.
Those are just the osteoclasts.
They break down any part of the bone
that's getting too big and bothersome.
An osteoclast acts as
a counterbalance, you see.
Those two types of cell actually
complement each other.
One builds
while the other trims off the extra
so the skeleton doesn't just keep growing.
Without the demolishers, the bones
would take over everything!
And apart from that, they help us by
creating spaces for circulation:
bringing air, food, and orders.
Really enormous job, that!
He's not right in the head.
l haven't even finished it, you swine!
Sorry about that, mate!
I'm going to finish the job!
Slurp! You'd better step aside, Shorty!
Go on, just you try and make me!
Let's go.
Do you see the paradox?
The only way to keep bone healthy
is to break it as you build.
And so, the tiny skeleton grows up.
As I was saying, today we will study
the structure of the human body.
Let's begin, then, with the bones of
the leg.
As soon as Claire has finished
daydreaming.
Good, now we can go on.
Man does not stand on his feet.
It's an entire balancing act.
Of the thirty-plus bones in the leg
only three of them touch the ground.
It's an extremely delicate balance.
Extremely delicate--that’s me! Look!
What exactly does
"delicate balance" mean?
-Ow.
-That does it! You two, out!
That should cool your heels a little!
Listen!
That'll show 'em.
Yes!
That's all for today, children.
Now go have fun in the snow.
Easy!
Bye Miss....
l hope we're all going to keep our
delicate balance!
Take your time-- I'll keep you company.
Don't wait for us you two, we’ll see you
later
Okay!
Your skiing's a lot better, Claire.
Soon, you'll be ready for the fast run.
We’ll be safe if we stick to this run.
That's odd. I remember
it being more to the right.
Happy landings, you two.
l don't think I've ever been this way
before.
Peter! Claire! Come back--
it's dangerous! They can't hear.
I need to go warn them!
We're going too fast! It's dangerous--
slow down!
-My leg hurts!
-Ow.
-Oh, Peter! Peter, where are you?
-Are you all right, Claire?
Please help me to get up.
l think my leg must be broken.
Mine must be broken too.
Hi! Whoops!
Hey, are you two all right?
‘Fraid not, Jumbo, I've broken my leg.
So has Peter.
Can you go and get some help?
Okay, but whatever you do, don't move!
Bye for now!
Hello, everybody!
And how are we feeling today, children?
Let me assure you, dear lady,
They'll soon be out of here,
believe me.
At their age,
bones don’t take long to knit.
Here, see for yourself.
That little fracture's nothing to write
home about.
It's just a trifle. Believe me.
She'll be out of her cast
in a matter of weeks.
And my poor son?
Now, let me see.... I've got the x-ray with
me. Here we are!
But this is serious.
It's a double fracture!
Now I am really worried.
There's absolutely no cause for concern,
my dear!
The bone has been set, and the wounds
cleaned and dressed.
That's the main thing.
Why haven't I got a cast, Doctor?
We preferred not to put any
foreign bodies
in contact with the wound.
That's why you have an exterior brace--
it's an excellent system
Now we can safely leave the healing to
the best doctor of all--Nature!
What a building site,
we can have a bit of fun here!
Follow me!
There you go!
Oh yes, very tasty, very nice, I like it!
That’s our police for you--
never there when you need 'em!
-Captain! Something's wrong!
-Whereabouts?
I don’t know where exactly,
I just feel it.
Very well then, we will keep our eyes
peeled,
Look there, up ahead.
Mayday. Send the lymphocyte units.
Meet us at Sector Y307.
Squadron 012 calling,
Lieutenant.
We're on our way, over and out.
OK for the macrophages.
We need some armored units
A force of StaphyIococci are attacking
the broken bone site.
Message received, Captain Peter,
My men could do with a little bit of
active service a-TEN-shun!
-Huh?
-March!
A slight fever, I see!
Just a few germs trying to make hay
in poor old Peter's leg!
l'll sort them out. With an antibiotic,
they'll never know what hit them.
Don't worry!
Enemy in sight!
-See what's coming?
-Huh?
We may be vastly outnumbered,
but... I have just decided to order a
strategic withdrawal.
Police...
Curses! Curses!
A germ life is no life at all.
Okay, we'd better escape this way.
Come on now, after me.
Come on now.
Curses! Curses!
Oh, I wish we could go home!
Don’t show your ignorance!
We're home now. It's too dangerous
with them on our tail.
I don't understand!
Have they gone mad?
Idiot!
We have no home of our own because
we're parasites!
Parasites, you bunch of numbskulls!
Understand? We have to borrow a body to
live in first
and then, after we've gained control,
we're set!
We will multiply and multiply
and become a great nation,
we will fulfill our destiny!
Well, well! My old friends.
This could be quite interesting.
Oh no!
Get off me! Get out of it, you horrible
little insects, before l... Aargh!
-Three cheers for the armed forces!
-Yes indeed!
At last...we can carry on rebuilding
the bone in peace.
And now
l suggest we begin delivering our oxygen
to the construction site.
As well as these materials.
This blood vessel's been cut,
how can we continue, Professor?
Never you worry, my child.
There are alternative routes to get us
back into circulation.
Okay, you've been up long enough
Come on, lie down for a bit.
This ought to cheer you up!
l thought you liked oranges better!
Whoops, deary me!
Need to trim this beard...
We seem to be feeling a great deal better
today, don’t we?
Yes, doctor, my son is improving.
Your bones seem to be knitting very nicely
indeed, young man.
Can I get up now Doctor?
Well....
We will have to see about that--it's
early days yet, you know.
And, if you walk on it again too soon,
you might re-injure it.
That wouldn't be smart.
l just hate staying in bed.
But, Peter, you're saving the energy
your body needs to repair the bone!
The new bone is still fragile!
Or it will break again!
And as for you, young lady, the cast
is coming off!
Doctor, tell me does a broken bone ever
regain its full strength?
Heavens, yes.
In fact it is a great deal stronger than
before at the site of the fracture.
Strong enough to carry 20 Claires,
or 1 tonne.
If you can imagine such a thing.
We can look forward to that.
Doctor, what makes the new bone so
healthy and strong?
Oh, it's quite simple, really.
First of all, you have the nutrients
brought in from outside
by the blood cells.
And the marrow of the broken bone has
an emergency supply
for such times.
And besides,
the body contains lots of
unstable calcium.
Hormones that steer this calcium
to the place where it's needed most.
We seem to be better.
Well, children, you're finally going
home tomorrow.
Now remember to take things easy at
first, won’t you?
Give me your hand dear...
Mm... your nails show a lack of calcium.
But you can get it back by eating plenty
of cheese, and drinking lots of milk.
l am quite sure that you'll find this sort
of diet most enjoyable.
And for you, Peter my boy, I am going to
prescribe lots of sunshine.
The sunlight will wake up the vitamin D.
And the faster the vitamins run with their
tiny loads of calcium
and phosphorus, the faster you'll be on
your feet and running too.
Take a road to wonder
Where the whys and the wherefores hide
Join us and discover
Celebrating the joy, that's life
Is life, is life, that's life