Fantastic Flowers

May 25, 2025

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Overview

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame using the Pathécolor process, or other similar stencilling techniques. Bonsoir – La Fée aux fleurs (1906) / [Bloemenvelden Haarlem] (1909) / Les Chrysanthèmes (1907) / Le Chrysanthème, roi de l’automne (1914) / [Les Tulipes] (1907) / Les Fleurs dans les jardins (1914) / L’Après-midi d’une japonaise (1920) / The Beauty Thief ([1920]) / La Fée printemps (1906) / [Het schoonste uit de natuur] (1912?) / La Culture du dahlia (1911) / [Hollandse Tulpen en Klompen] (1920?) / Fabrication des fleurs artificielles (1911) / [Bonsoir tableau] (1906)

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Filmarchiv Austria

Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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Visions of Europe

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7.5

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Sep 23, 1927

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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Sep 2, 2007

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5.5

Famous T & A

Jan 1, 1982

A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on.

7.1

Nanook of the North

Jun 11, 1922

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

7.4

Visions of Lourdes

Jan 1, 1932

Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pilgrimage with the Catholic Young Workers’ Movement. The director’s approach is one of critical reflection; A film emotional and fervent, even acerbic.

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The Wheat Industry

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Tells the life story of a grain of wheat In Casselton, North Dakota.

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Photographic Studies in Hypnosis: Abnormal Psychology

Jan 1, 1938

Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.

6.5

42nd Street Forever, Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

Oct 27, 2009

WELCOME TO THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA, the most awesome post-modern hot spot for exploitation movie revival, deep in the heart of Texas! Home to world-famous events such as The Quentin Tarantino Film Fest, Fantastic Fest and Butt-Numb-A-Thon, the Alamo is one of the last places on earth where you can still see grindhouse classics such as THE DEVIL WITHIN HER and MAD MONKEY KUNG FU. Now, the Alamo has opened their vaults for a peek at some of the most outrageous cinematic gems from several golden ages of sleaze cinema. Digitally re-mastered in high-definition from the actual reels that show every week at the Alamo, this exciting edition of the 42ND STREET FOREVER series is the most bizarre, the most terrifying and the most hilarious one yet!

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Jenes Flowers

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This documentary explores a Maryland flower business using residential addresses for targeted promotion, blending digital marketing in order to reach local communities in the modern world.

5.2

Carmencita

Mar 14, 1894

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

6.1

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

Oct 15, 1888

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

6.0

Bicycle

Jan 1, 1965

Rhythmic composition of moving photographs of cyclists in Amsterdam, ‘set’ to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

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Jan 10, 2008

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Amazon: Longest River in the World

Jan 1, 1918

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Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest

Aug 3, 1896

Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

4.6

Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs

Mar 5, 1895

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

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Sheep Coming Through Chute, Humuula Ranch, Hawaii

Aug 11, 1906

Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.

7.4

Thimble Theater

Jan 1, 1938

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.

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