Pollen Tube
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Microscopic time-lapse footage of a pollen tube's growth.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1954
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: In My Ivory Cellar: The Story of Time-Lapse Photography, John Ott notes that this film's sequence documents the growth of a pollen tube while it penetrates the stigma of a flower. Protoplasmic contents of pollen flow through the tube to fertilize the flower's ovary.
Subjects: Time; Flowers; Scientific equipment; Plants
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Negatives, 40 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36390
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: In My Ivory Cellar: The Story of Time-Lapse Photography, John Ott notes that this film's sequence documents the growth of a pollen tube while it penetrates the stigma of a flower. Protoplasmic contents of pollen flow through the tube to fertilize the flower's ovary.
Subjects: Time; Flowers; Scientific equipment; Plants
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Negatives, 40 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36390
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:24:51