Harry Mantel’s Vignettes: Flower Conservatory
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A visit to Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory captured on 16mm and set to a soothing soundtrack. The film features various show rooms or houses at the conservatory as well as visitors of all ages admiring various plants, flowers and water features.
Credits
Harry Mantel (filmmaker); Harry Mantel (co-producer)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Harry Mantel Collection
Notes: Footage begins around 45 seconds into the film. Contains lilacs, lilies, tulips, and other common garden flowers. Includes a few select wide shots: one shows the reflections of flowers in a pond, another shows some of the scale of the greenhouse setting, with the latticed ceiling of the greenhouse occupying the upper part of the frame. The latter portion of the film includes several shots of Conservatory visitors, especially young children and babies. Transitions between shots are slow cross-dissolves.
Subjects: Plants; Flowers; Ecology
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 115 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/16637; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4644
Notes: Footage begins around 45 seconds into the film. Contains lilacs, lilies, tulips, and other common garden flowers. Includes a few select wide shots: one shows the reflections of flowers in a pond, another shows some of the scale of the greenhouse setting, with the latticed ceiling of the greenhouse occupying the upper part of the frame. The latter portion of the film includes several shots of Conservatory visitors, especially young children and babies. Transitions between shots are slow cross-dissolves.
Subjects: Plants; Flowers; Ecology
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 115 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/16637; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4644
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:09