DESCRIPTION:
Doctor Cornish was a real life mad scientist. This is an exert from the 1935 film "Life Returns". The movie is about a doctor who has spent his life working on ways to revive the dead. He gets his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedure on a recently deceased dog.

The movie uses footage from actual University of Southern California experiment in which scientists claimed they brought a dead dog back to life. Robert E. Cornish, playing himself in the film, was one of the scientists involved.