Tag: blooming

Blossoming cactus 1930s

Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Cactus flowers. Close-up, June, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Kaktusblomster. Nærbilde, June, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Blossoming cactus, July, 1934. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Blomstrende kaktus, July, 1934. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Blossoming cactus, July, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ Blomstrende kaktus, July, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

About Hans Grendahl (1877 – 1962)

Born in Rennebu. Son of farmer Ole Knudsen Grendahl and Ane Hansdatter, born Aas. He graduated in architecture with architect Solberg, Trondheim, in 1902, after which he went to Germany and studied architecture at the university in Karlsruhe. After completing his education, Grendahl was employed, among others in the company Jacob Digre in Ålesund, later he became an assistant teacher in building subjects, construction and freehand drawing at Trondhjem’s technical training institute. In 1916 he was employed as a teacher at NTH. In the 1920s and 30s took a number of photographs in color (Autochromes), i.a. interiors and exteriors of churches in Trøndelag, Gudbrandsdalen, Østerdalen, Møre and Romsdal and Telemark, as well as pictures from the Trøndelag exhibition in 1930 and the Drammen exhibition in the same year. The oldest color photo taken in his collection is from 1922. Grendahl left a unique archive of stereo images, about half of which are in colour, to his daughter Adelheide (Ada) Grue, in Stjørdal. The picture collection was bought by the Preus Fotomuseum in 1989 and digitalized in December 2021. It consists of 1017 photographs on glass plates in the format 90×140 mm. With a few exceptions, the images are stereo images.

quoted from Preus Fotomuseum

Hans Grendahl (1877-1957) ~ White cactus, July, 1935. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum
Hans Grendahl (1877-1957) ~ Hvit kaktus, July, 1935. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

Footage of Roses · 1925

Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | Pink rose blooming
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | src Prelinger Archives on internet archive
time-lapse study of a blooming pink rose, from an artificially colored film
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. Yellow rose blooming
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | src Prelinger Archives on internet archive
time-lapse study of a blooming yellow rose then beginning to wilt, from a film artificially colored
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | Three pink roses blooming
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | src Prelinger Archives on internet archive
time-lapse study of three blooming roses, from a film artificially colored
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | Wilting flower
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | Fruit
Arthur Edward Pillsbury ~ Footage of roses, 1925. | src Prelinger Archives on internet archive
time-lapse study of a wilting flower, from an artificially colored film

Blüten von Walter Möbius

Walter Möbius :: Birnenblüte bei Diesbar, um 1924 | src Deutsche Fotothek
Walter Möbius :: Echte Schlüsselblume (Primula veris), auch Himmelsschlüssel, im Weißeritztal, um 1924 | Deutsche Fotothek
Walter Möbius :: Birnenblüte, aufgenommen bei Cossebaude, um 1924 | Deutsche Fotothek
Walter Möbius :: Sumpfporst in Blüte (und Hände), um 1924 | src Deutsche Fotothek

Bloeiende bloemen (Mol, 1932)

Gif from a time-lapse animation of flowers and plants : Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [NL, 1932]
Time lapse animation of flowers and plants. Fragment from Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [NL, J.C. Mol, Multifilm (Haarlem), 1932]
Capture from a time-lapse animation of flowers and plants : Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [Mol, 1932]
Gif from a time-lapse animation of flowers and plants : Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [Mol, 1932]
Time lapse animation of flowers and plants. Fragment from Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [NL, J.C. Mol, Multifilm (Haarlem), 1932]
Time lapse animation of flowers and plants. Fragment from Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [NL, J.C. Mol, Multifilm (Haarlem), 1932]
Time lapse animation of flowers and plants. Fragment from Filmwerken Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen [NL, J.C. Mol, Multifilm (Haarlem), 1932]

All fragments are extracted from an educational Dutch film : Bloeiende bloemen en plantenbewegingen (1932) Director: J.C. Mol | Production Country: Netherlands | Year: 1932 | Production Company: Multifilm (Haarlem) | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam)

Accelerated frame-by-frame shots (time-lapse, or “Zeitraffer”) of budding flowers and moving plants and mushrooms. This is part of the episodic film “WONDERS OF NATURE”, which is also shown in separate parts.

website of Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) : also, link to catalog

see also the youtube channel of the museum @eyefilmNL : https://www.youtube.com/@eyefilmNL

Here is the link to the whole movie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN08inNVgE&t=1365s

In case you are interested, here we add the links to related films:

Uit het rijk der kristallen [From the realm of crystals (J.C. Mol; 1927)] : in website, on their youtube channel (the advantage of the youtube version is that it is divided in chapters by chemical product. There are different versions of Uit het rijk der kristallen: the original silent film was given a soundtrack in the 1930s and is longer.

Uit het rijk der kristallen is one of the scientific films made ​​by Mol. Several versions of this film exist. In the film, the crystallization processes of various chemicals are shown and there is a colour version of the film which was made ​​using Dufay colour.

Take a glimpse, here is a clip:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxcuOvxC6cMz3sx6TcqY1ahbC4GtwIN4wb