Il était une fois... la vie (1987–1988): Season 1, Episode 2 - La naissance - full transcript
The birth.
[upbeat song playing]
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Sing a song of life ♪
♪ Every heartbeat's a miracle ♪
♪ Feel the rhythm growing ♪
♪ Day by day as we go ♪
♪ Look inside, your body is humming ♪
♪ With a 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 ♪
BIRTH
[bright music playing]
[roaring noise]
[narrator] The universe.
[explosion]
[narrator] The earth.
The development...
that was to lead to man.
Man...
[silly sounds and crash]
[glass breaking sound]
Well, almost.
[bright music playing]
Ah, yes! Man.
And woman.
Yes... woman.
A couple.
Hundreds of millions of spermatozoa
set out for an onslaught.
They pass through
a fantastic obstacle course.
Only one percent of them will succeed
in breaking through the barrier
created by the neck of the womb.
[lively music playing]
[silly noises]
Most of the survivors
will die of exhaustion
in the cavity of the womb.
[silly noises]
[upbeat music playing]
Or they’ll be captured
in the traps of the fallopian tubes.
Very few of them will succeed
in getting anywhere near the egg cell.
[sperm] Yoohoo! Wow.
[clinking noise]
[silly noises]
[laser buzzing]
[crashing and rumbling]
[narrator] The egg cell.
[bright music playing]
[laser buzzing]
[silly noise]
[sperm shrieks]
[narrator] Only one is admitted
to the sanctuary,
although hundreds of millions set out
and the secret entrance disappears.
[silly noise]
[lively music playing]
Oh!
Mm.
-[cracking sounds]
-[bright music playing]
[chromosome 1] Look who's here.
Our complementary chromosomes.
[chromosome 2] Do you think
we're going to match?
You always ask such idiotic questions.
[chromosome 3] Oh, they look quite nice.
-Hmm.
-[chromosome 4] Oh.
[lively music playing]
-[chromosome 5] Come.
-[partner] Oh, wow.
Hmm? Hmm?
Oh.
Ooh.
Ooh.
-Go on everybody, dance!
-[chromosomes humming]
[chatting and giggling]
[whirring]
[bell ringing]
[narrator] Now,
everything can start happening.
-[bell rings]
-The first day of fertilization.
-[bell rings]
-The second day.
[bell rings]
Third... fourth days.
The divisions of the fertilized egg
have become too numerous to count.
[bright music playing]
The neck of the womb closes up again
to preserve the fertilized egg,
which within a few days,
will attach itself
to the wall of the womb.
By the 28th day it is already an embryo.
An embryo surrounded by an outer membrane,
like an envelope,
part of which forms the placenta.
The placenta helps to feed
the growing embryo.
[maestro] Command Post here,
l am listening.
[beeps]
You need supplementary cells
for the skeleton, the skin, and the heart!
What? You're a nuisance.
I can't do everything.
Everybody has his specialty.
You should know that. Hm?
[murmuring]
Hello, chromosome center.
-We have an order for you from the cells.
-[officer] Mm. Yes?
Put operation Mitosis into effect at once.
[silly noise]
[officer] Hey you down there,
get to work.
[yawning]
[officer] Come on chromosomes, get up.
[mumbling and yawning]
-[bright music playing]
-[screeches]
[boing]
[machine whirring]
[laughing gleefully]
-[happy music playing]
-[laughing]
Oh.
[gasps]
[chromosome shrieks and moans]
[enzyme 1] Let's see
how this chromosome is made.
[enzyme 2] But he's made
just like the others, isn't he?
[enzyme 1] Do you think so?
Why don’t you have a closer look?
[enzyme 4] You up there, you can come now.
Coming.
[popping sound]
-Oh!
-What about me?
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
-This is my place! It's my place.
-No, I was here first.
-Go away.
-You're a bunch of snobs.
-Whoa!
-[enzyme 3] ln your proper places, please.
[ping and pop]
[squeaks]
Hm-mm. Over there.
That will do, we haven't time
for playing the fool.
No, not you. I don't want this one.
[popping]
[chief 1] You take this lot,
I will do them.
[chief 2] Okay.
[silly noise]
Ow! Ow! Ow!
And what do you think you're trying to do?
Cause a genetic accident?
Hm.
[squeaking]
[voice] Hurry up you late comers.
It's almost time.
[bright music playing]
[squeaking]
[rumbling]
[screeching]
[voice] Are you ready for cell division?
Mitosis!
[rumbling and screeching]
[upbeat music playing]
[rumbling]
[screeching]
Operation Mitosis
successfully accomplished, Maestro.
[maestro] Jolly good.
[giggling]
[voice] Eye cells...
go to platform number 47.
Muscle cells, number 10.
Bone cells, platform number 17.
[grunts and mumbles]
[silly sound]
[panting]
Heart cells, platform number 22.
[indistinct chattering]
Come along cells, conduct yourselves
in an orderly fashion!
There are 200 different kinds of you,
so without discipline
we'll never get where we're going.
[laughing heartily]
[officer] Hurry along there,
to your platform please.
Cells for the liver, platform 8.
[indistinct chattering]
Cells for the muscles, platform 10.
[giggling]
Skin cells platform number 14.
Keep calm please, move along.
-Don't push, please.
-[grunts]
There's room for everyone.
-[officer] No!
-Cells for the heart, platform 19.
And let's have some order, please!
Bone cells, platform 17.
Liver cells, platform number 8.
Cells for the muscles, platform 10.
[giggling]
Cells for the skin, platform number...
[mumbling]
[bright music playing]
[thudding]
-[bell rings]
-[narrator] By the 35th day,
the embryo or fetus
is six millimeters long.
By the 42nd day it is 12 millimeters.
By the 15th day, 20 millimeters.
[engine racing and tires screeching]
[silly noises]
[tires screeching]
[silly noises]
[voice] Heart cell...
[cell] I'm here!
You're late. Step up circulation
towards platform 19.
Pay attention you lot,
your platform comes up next.
[bone cell] I'm sorry.
[voice] Bone cells, platform number 17.
[mumbling]
[bone cell 2] And you,
where are you going?
[bone cell 3] I'm headed
for the shoulder blade,
there's still a lot to be done there,
and you, Chief?
Way out west to the humerus.
There's new land there to conquer.
-[bone cell] What's the hold up?
-Dunno! It's at the front.
[silly noises]
[bone cell 4] Just what are we doing here?
[bone cell 5] Search me, dear.
[bone cell 6] The whole way in vain!
-They can't treat us like this.
-You are so right.
l agree, they can't.
[horse neighing]
[scout] Listen, everyone! Good news!
Further west towards the forearm
there are immense territories to conquer.
[scout2] It is a brand new land,
follow us. Yippee. Come!
[laughs]
[tires screeching]
[silly noise]
[voice] Cells for the eyes,
you're needed urgently.
-[gasps]
-Proceed at once to platform 4.
-Will you stop pushing?
-Let us through.
But it's impossible. Unless you fly.
I'm an eye cell, silly fool,
not a fly cell.
[voice] Eye cells, we're sending
a detachment of engineers
to open the way for you.
[sapper] Follow us.
[gasping and shouting]
[engines whizzing]
[sapper] Units ready, forward march.
[bright music playing]
Hooray!
[laughing]
[chief] Here we are, chaps!
Forward march. Units for the cornea,
to the left,
Units for the retina, to the right.
Goodbye, I so enjoyed our trip.
Cells for the crystalline lens, follow me.
[moaning and groaning]
[giggling]
-[groaning]
-Further. Further. Further.
Stop! Our objective.
[mumbling]
[lively music playing]
[delightful sounds]
[silly popping sounds]
[bright music playing]
[narrator] Sixty days, 35 millimeters.
[popping sounds]
[gloomy music playing]
Send me a messenger.
A little respect please. Get off my nose.
To the cell-commander, the troops
are exhausted and need nourishment.
Right, off you go.
-Huh?
-[screeching]
[silly noise]
[heart beating]
[engine whizzing]
[alarm sounding]
-[silly popping noises]
-[messenger] Ah!
[screeches]
"Proteins, collagen, ovalbumin..."
Yes, I've got that.
Take this order:
collagen and ovalbumin right away.
[screeches] Teams 5 and 22,
you're needed at the duplicating room.
[yawning]
[enzyme] Hurry up, it's an emergency.
-[silly noise]
-[happy music playing]
[boing]
[boing]
[popping]
Hey ho.
[chuckling]
-Oh.
-Yeah!
How come instead of a T there’s a U?
I don't understand this machine.
Well, we will just have to do.
That's fine, the RNA messenger
has been sent off.
[upbeat music playing]
[silly noise]
-Oh.
-[pop]
[enzyme] That's good. That's okay.
-[yells]
-That'll do. That's good.
Oh, no, no. Not that. No, no. I need a U.
-[gasps]
-You've got it wrong.
[groaning and gasping]
Hey, you don't fit at all, you two.
You're in the wrong place.
[magical sounds]
[crying]
-[pops]
-[sighs]
[enzyme] Yes, yes. That's all right. Next.
[feel-good music playing]
[silly popping sounds]
[feel-good music playing]
There. There you are.
There you are. There.
[specialist thinks] I wish someone
would explain what all this is for.
[bright music playing]
What on earth are they making?
I don't understand a thing.
[specialist 2] Protein's ready.
Protein? Ready to be dispatched, is it?
[whizzing sounds]
-[enzyme] Load up those proteins.
-[bright music playing]
[laid-back music playing]
[grunting and groaning]
[protein] Right, I'm on my way.
[bright music playing]
[sugar] Look who's arrived.
Move further along protein.
They need you over there.
[laughing]
Let’s go!
[groans]
-[grunts]
-[happy laughter]
Yippee!
-[upbeat music playing]
-[heart beating]
-[bell rings]
-[narrator] Eighty days, nine centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-Hundred and 20 days, 20 centimeters.
[lively music playing]
-[bell rings]
-Hundred and 40 days, 25 centimeters.
-Hundred and 70 days, 30 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-Two hundred days, 35 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-225 days, 40 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-250 days, 45 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-270 days, nine months, 50 centimeters.
Weight: 3.2 kilograms.
The assembly of 60 billion cells.
A single fertilized cell
has manufactured muscles and skin,
skeleton and brain, heart and lungs,
nails, arms and legs.
[groaning and gasping]
For generation after generation,
a single cell has made...
life.
[crying]
[chuckling]
Ah!
Oh! [giggling]
[lively music playing]
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Sing a song of life ♪
♪ Every heartbeat's a miracle ♪
♪ Feel the rhythm growing ♪
♪ Day by day as we go ♪
♪ Look inside, your body is humming ♪
♪ With a 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 ♪
BIRTH
[bright music playing]
[roaring noise]
[narrator] The universe.
[explosion]
[narrator] The earth.
The development...
that was to lead to man.
Man...
[silly sounds and crash]
[glass breaking sound]
Well, almost.
[bright music playing]
Ah, yes! Man.
And woman.
Yes... woman.
A couple.
Hundreds of millions of spermatozoa
set out for an onslaught.
They pass through
a fantastic obstacle course.
Only one percent of them will succeed
in breaking through the barrier
created by the neck of the womb.
[lively music playing]
[silly noises]
Most of the survivors
will die of exhaustion
in the cavity of the womb.
[silly noises]
[upbeat music playing]
Or they’ll be captured
in the traps of the fallopian tubes.
Very few of them will succeed
in getting anywhere near the egg cell.
[sperm] Yoohoo! Wow.
[clinking noise]
[silly noises]
[laser buzzing]
[crashing and rumbling]
[narrator] The egg cell.
[bright music playing]
[laser buzzing]
[silly noise]
[sperm shrieks]
[narrator] Only one is admitted
to the sanctuary,
although hundreds of millions set out
and the secret entrance disappears.
[silly noise]
[lively music playing]
Oh!
Mm.
-[cracking sounds]
-[bright music playing]
[chromosome 1] Look who's here.
Our complementary chromosomes.
[chromosome 2] Do you think
we're going to match?
You always ask such idiotic questions.
[chromosome 3] Oh, they look quite nice.
-Hmm.
-[chromosome 4] Oh.
[lively music playing]
-[chromosome 5] Come.
-[partner] Oh, wow.
Hmm? Hmm?
Oh.
Ooh.
Ooh.
-Go on everybody, dance!
-[chromosomes humming]
[chatting and giggling]
[whirring]
[bell ringing]
[narrator] Now,
everything can start happening.
-[bell rings]
-The first day of fertilization.
-[bell rings]
-The second day.
[bell rings]
Third... fourth days.
The divisions of the fertilized egg
have become too numerous to count.
[bright music playing]
The neck of the womb closes up again
to preserve the fertilized egg,
which within a few days,
will attach itself
to the wall of the womb.
By the 28th day it is already an embryo.
An embryo surrounded by an outer membrane,
like an envelope,
part of which forms the placenta.
The placenta helps to feed
the growing embryo.
[maestro] Command Post here,
l am listening.
[beeps]
You need supplementary cells
for the skeleton, the skin, and the heart!
What? You're a nuisance.
I can't do everything.
Everybody has his specialty.
You should know that. Hm?
[murmuring]
Hello, chromosome center.
-We have an order for you from the cells.
-[officer] Mm. Yes?
Put operation Mitosis into effect at once.
[silly noise]
[officer] Hey you down there,
get to work.
[yawning]
[officer] Come on chromosomes, get up.
[mumbling and yawning]
-[bright music playing]
-[screeches]
[boing]
[machine whirring]
[laughing gleefully]
-[happy music playing]
-[laughing]
Oh.
[gasps]
[chromosome shrieks and moans]
[enzyme 1] Let's see
how this chromosome is made.
[enzyme 2] But he's made
just like the others, isn't he?
[enzyme 1] Do you think so?
Why don’t you have a closer look?
[enzyme 4] You up there, you can come now.
Coming.
[popping sound]
-Oh!
-What about me?
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
-This is my place! It's my place.
-No, I was here first.
-Go away.
-You're a bunch of snobs.
-Whoa!
-[enzyme 3] ln your proper places, please.
[ping and pop]
[squeaks]
Hm-mm. Over there.
That will do, we haven't time
for playing the fool.
No, not you. I don't want this one.
[popping]
[chief 1] You take this lot,
I will do them.
[chief 2] Okay.
[silly noise]
Ow! Ow! Ow!
And what do you think you're trying to do?
Cause a genetic accident?
Hm.
[squeaking]
[voice] Hurry up you late comers.
It's almost time.
[bright music playing]
[squeaking]
[rumbling]
[screeching]
[voice] Are you ready for cell division?
Mitosis!
[rumbling and screeching]
[upbeat music playing]
[rumbling]
[screeching]
Operation Mitosis
successfully accomplished, Maestro.
[maestro] Jolly good.
[giggling]
[voice] Eye cells...
go to platform number 47.
Muscle cells, number 10.
Bone cells, platform number 17.
[grunts and mumbles]
[silly sound]
[panting]
Heart cells, platform number 22.
[indistinct chattering]
Come along cells, conduct yourselves
in an orderly fashion!
There are 200 different kinds of you,
so without discipline
we'll never get where we're going.
[laughing heartily]
[officer] Hurry along there,
to your platform please.
Cells for the liver, platform 8.
[indistinct chattering]
Cells for the muscles, platform 10.
[giggling]
Skin cells platform number 14.
Keep calm please, move along.
-Don't push, please.
-[grunts]
There's room for everyone.
-[officer] No!
-Cells for the heart, platform 19.
And let's have some order, please!
Bone cells, platform 17.
Liver cells, platform number 8.
Cells for the muscles, platform 10.
[giggling]
Cells for the skin, platform number...
[mumbling]
[bright music playing]
[thudding]
-[bell rings]
-[narrator] By the 35th day,
the embryo or fetus
is six millimeters long.
By the 42nd day it is 12 millimeters.
By the 15th day, 20 millimeters.
[engine racing and tires screeching]
[silly noises]
[tires screeching]
[silly noises]
[voice] Heart cell...
[cell] I'm here!
You're late. Step up circulation
towards platform 19.
Pay attention you lot,
your platform comes up next.
[bone cell] I'm sorry.
[voice] Bone cells, platform number 17.
[mumbling]
[bone cell 2] And you,
where are you going?
[bone cell 3] I'm headed
for the shoulder blade,
there's still a lot to be done there,
and you, Chief?
Way out west to the humerus.
There's new land there to conquer.
-[bone cell] What's the hold up?
-Dunno! It's at the front.
[silly noises]
[bone cell 4] Just what are we doing here?
[bone cell 5] Search me, dear.
[bone cell 6] The whole way in vain!
-They can't treat us like this.
-You are so right.
l agree, they can't.
[horse neighing]
[scout] Listen, everyone! Good news!
Further west towards the forearm
there are immense territories to conquer.
[scout2] It is a brand new land,
follow us. Yippee. Come!
[laughs]
[tires screeching]
[silly noise]
[voice] Cells for the eyes,
you're needed urgently.
-[gasps]
-Proceed at once to platform 4.
-Will you stop pushing?
-Let us through.
But it's impossible. Unless you fly.
I'm an eye cell, silly fool,
not a fly cell.
[voice] Eye cells, we're sending
a detachment of engineers
to open the way for you.
[sapper] Follow us.
[gasping and shouting]
[engines whizzing]
[sapper] Units ready, forward march.
[bright music playing]
Hooray!
[laughing]
[chief] Here we are, chaps!
Forward march. Units for the cornea,
to the left,
Units for the retina, to the right.
Goodbye, I so enjoyed our trip.
Cells for the crystalline lens, follow me.
[moaning and groaning]
[giggling]
-[groaning]
-Further. Further. Further.
Stop! Our objective.
[mumbling]
[lively music playing]
[delightful sounds]
[silly popping sounds]
[bright music playing]
[narrator] Sixty days, 35 millimeters.
[popping sounds]
[gloomy music playing]
Send me a messenger.
A little respect please. Get off my nose.
To the cell-commander, the troops
are exhausted and need nourishment.
Right, off you go.
-Huh?
-[screeching]
[silly noise]
[heart beating]
[engine whizzing]
[alarm sounding]
-[silly popping noises]
-[messenger] Ah!
[screeches]
"Proteins, collagen, ovalbumin..."
Yes, I've got that.
Take this order:
collagen and ovalbumin right away.
[screeches] Teams 5 and 22,
you're needed at the duplicating room.
[yawning]
[enzyme] Hurry up, it's an emergency.
-[silly noise]
-[happy music playing]
[boing]
[boing]
[popping]
Hey ho.
[chuckling]
-Oh.
-Yeah!
How come instead of a T there’s a U?
I don't understand this machine.
Well, we will just have to do.
That's fine, the RNA messenger
has been sent off.
[upbeat music playing]
[silly noise]
-Oh.
-[pop]
[enzyme] That's good. That's okay.
-[yells]
-That'll do. That's good.
Oh, no, no. Not that. No, no. I need a U.
-[gasps]
-You've got it wrong.
[groaning and gasping]
Hey, you don't fit at all, you two.
You're in the wrong place.
[magical sounds]
[crying]
-[pops]
-[sighs]
[enzyme] Yes, yes. That's all right. Next.
[feel-good music playing]
[silly popping sounds]
[feel-good music playing]
There. There you are.
There you are. There.
[specialist thinks] I wish someone
would explain what all this is for.
[bright music playing]
What on earth are they making?
I don't understand a thing.
[specialist 2] Protein's ready.
Protein? Ready to be dispatched, is it?
[whizzing sounds]
-[enzyme] Load up those proteins.
-[bright music playing]
[laid-back music playing]
[grunting and groaning]
[protein] Right, I'm on my way.
[bright music playing]
[sugar] Look who's arrived.
Move further along protein.
They need you over there.
[laughing]
Let’s go!
[groans]
-[grunts]
-[happy laughter]
Yippee!
-[upbeat music playing]
-[heart beating]
-[bell rings]
-[narrator] Eighty days, nine centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-Hundred and 20 days, 20 centimeters.
[lively music playing]
-[bell rings]
-Hundred and 40 days, 25 centimeters.
-Hundred and 70 days, 30 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-Two hundred days, 35 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-225 days, 40 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-250 days, 45 centimeters.
-[bell rings]
-270 days, nine months, 50 centimeters.
Weight: 3.2 kilograms.
The assembly of 60 billion cells.
A single fertilized cell
has manufactured muscles and skin,
skeleton and brain, heart and lungs,
nails, arms and legs.
[groaning and gasping]
For generation after generation,
a single cell has made...
life.
[crying]
[chuckling]
Ah!
Oh! [giggling]
[lively music playing]