[St. John's Wort]
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Time-lapse footage of St. John's wort blooming.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1956
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: Ott shot his time-lapse plant footage in his Winnetka greenhouse. He installed automatic temperature, humidity, and irrigation systems to help with growing different species of plants, and outfitted his greenhouse with automatic photofloods, iron window shutters, and an army of Bell & Howell “Filmo Model 70” 16mm cameras mounted on dolleys. The nerve center of all of this was an elaborate setup of switch panels and controls connected to a timer. Ott’s automatic greenhouse was called “ingenious” by American Cinematographer in 1947.
Subjects: Plants; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 25 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36407
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: Ott shot his time-lapse plant footage in his Winnetka greenhouse. He installed automatic temperature, humidity, and irrigation systems to help with growing different species of plants, and outfitted his greenhouse with automatic photofloods, iron window shutters, and an army of Bell & Howell “Filmo Model 70” 16mm cameras mounted on dolleys. The nerve center of all of this was an elaborate setup of switch panels and controls connected to a timer. Ott’s automatic greenhouse was called “ingenious” by American Cinematographer in 1947.
Subjects: Plants; Time; Flowers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 25 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36407
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:24:51