The Birth of a Flower (1910)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 6M
Director : F. Percy Smith
Synopsis
"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Monthly Film Bulletin, November 1955.
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