A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
Battleship Potemkin
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
City Lights
Pandora's Box
Behind the Door
The Bright Shawl
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Nanook of the North
The Birth of a Nation
Lonesome Cowboys
Joyless Street
The Holy Mountain
Limite
Assassination
His Dog
White Gold
The Last Laugh
The Stolen Bride
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