Time-Lapse African Violets
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Footage that includes an excerpt and outtakes from an episode of How Does Your Garden Grow? focusing on the African violet.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker); Donnelly Hanson (participant)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1952
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: This film begins with an excerpt from an episode of How Does Your Garden Grow? that shows Donnelly Hanson, member of the African Violet Society of America, as she tends to African violets that she grows under artificial light in her basement in Evanston, Illinois. The film concludes with time-lapse photography of African violets blooming which was omitted from the full episode.
Subjects: Plants; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Evanston
Cfa elements: 154 feet; 75 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36451; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36452
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: This film begins with an excerpt from an episode of How Does Your Garden Grow? that shows Donnelly Hanson, member of the African Violet Society of America, as she tends to African violets that she grows under artificial light in her basement in Evanston, Illinois. The film concludes with time-lapse photography of African violets blooming which was omitted from the full episode.
Subjects: Plants; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Evanston
Cfa elements: 154 feet; 75 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36451; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36452
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:24:51