Fruits and Flowers
Fruits and Flowers is a short film from ca. 1920s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Great botanical footage from around the 1920s. Great cartoon with comic book-like caption boxes outlining the phases in plant development. Great ear time-lapse studies of flowers blooming.
14:04:00:04 Sprinkler system watering and spraying pesticides on crops; cuts to CU of leave infested with bugs.
14:04:47:24 Time-lapse study of rhododendron flowers blooming.
14:05:29:25 Time-lapse study of rose blooming then wilting.
14:05:53:06 Time-lapse study of the globe thistle flower; CU globe thistle individual florets blooming.
14:06:35:22 Animated drawing of the stages of seed development: root development, leafage, blooming. Pointer in drawing identifies the stamen, the seed container. A bee in the drawing appears. Filament is shown in drawing, pollen grains.
14:12:26:15 Time-lapse study of the pod of a willow-bud.
14:13:55:22 Time-lapse study of a dandelion parachute seed.
14:14:19:10 VS CU under microscope of barbed dandelion root.
14:14:55:03 CU goat s beard flower rotating.
14:15:15:03 Great shot of goat s beard parachute seed flower or weed floating gracefully in the air, almost ghostlike.
14:16:41:27 CU lime seed under microscope.
14:16:53:16 Great shot of lime seed slowly falling to ground, twirling quickly like a helicopter to brace it s fall.| Fruits and Flowers | |
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| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
| Distributed by | 0 |
Release date | ca. 1920s |
Running time | 1 reel |
| Language | English |
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