Il Fauno (1917)

Nietta Mordeglia (Fede/Faith, the model) in Il Fauno (Faun), 1917

Il Fauno ~ Nietta Mordeglia (Faith, the model) in Il Fauno (Faun), 1917. Director: Febo Mari; productor: S.A. Ambrosio / Museo Nazionale del Cinema (src Cineteca MNC on vimeo)

Nietta Mordeglia (Fede/Faith, the model) in Il Fauno (Faun), Febo Mari, 1917

Theda Bara · A Fool There Was

Theda Bara (The Vampire) in her first starring role in A Fool There Was (1915). Private collection. | src Wikimedia Commons

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]

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