How does your garden grow. African violets.
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P: Preservation Material NT: Negative Track AC: Acetate B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 989 John Ott Pictures, Inc.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker); John Ott Pictures, Inc. (production company); John Nash Ott Jr. (host); Donnelly Hanson (participant)
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Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: Host John Ott greets the audience from his home studio and introduces the day's topic, the African violet. He briefly praises the African Violet Society of America, displays examples of the single-crown and double types to the camera, and then proceeds to demonstrate various methods for helping African violets bloom as well as how to start new plants from the pruned leaf cuttings. As an aside, Ott exhibits several examples of miniature silver African violet castings that an acquaintance, Dr. W.W. Wainwright of the department of dental radiology at the University of Illinois, makes into pins and earrings as a hobby. Then, Ott demonstrates how to hybridize new varieties by cutting the antlers from one African violet and transferring its pollen to the stigma of the other plant. He also shows how to spread seedlings into a new pot, which is followed by time-lapse footage of African violets blooming as "Nocturne" by Stanford Robinson plays in the background. The film concludes with a scene that shows Donnelly Hanson, a 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.
Subjects: Plants; Gardens; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Evanston
Language: English
Cfa elements: 980 feet; 800 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36477; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36485
Notes: Host John Ott greets the audience from his home studio and introduces the day's topic, the African violet. He briefly praises the African Violet Society of America, displays examples of the single-crown and double types to the camera, and then proceeds to demonstrate various methods for helping African violets bloom as well as how to start new plants from the pruned leaf cuttings. As an aside, Ott exhibits several examples of miniature silver African violet castings that an acquaintance, Dr. W.W. Wainwright of the department of dental radiology at the University of Illinois, makes into pins and earrings as a hobby. Then, Ott demonstrates how to hybridize new varieties by cutting the antlers from one African violet and transferring its pollen to the stigma of the other plant. He also shows how to spread seedlings into a new pot, which is followed by time-lapse footage of African violets blooming as "Nocturne" by Stanford Robinson plays in the background. The film concludes with a scene that shows Donnelly Hanson, a 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.
Subjects: Plants; Gardens; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Evanston
Language: English
Cfa elements: 980 feet; 800 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36477; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36485
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