GROWTH OF SEEDS

TIME LAPSE SEEDS GROWING

COVERAGE OF A NURSERY W/ PLANTS GROWN FROM SEEDS AND CUTTINGS FROM GLENWOOD CANYON IN COLORADO. 00:00:20 VS OF TAGGED TREES GROWING IN MANMADE GROVE. VS OF SMALLER POTTED PLANTS GROWING IN GROUPINGS BY (PLANT) TYPE. FOOTAGE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS WATERING THE POTTED PLANTS. CI: SCENICS: NURSEY.

MS of cluster of apples in tree. ESTABLISHING HA PAN of orchards, countryside. Interior shot of laboratory, two technicians at work. Various shots of operations including collection of pollen in small bottles, test for germination. MS of man looking into microscope, cut to photomicrograph of germinating pollen. Shot of man removing apple seed from cold storage, laying racks of seed on flat surface to allow seed to germinate. MS, CUs of two men preparing apple blossoms for tests in field, pollen-bearing stamen are removed to prevent self-pollinization, blossoms and sometimes, whole tree are bagged to prevent wind and insect born pollen to spoil experiment. Shot of pistils being pollinized by hand. Seedlings being transplanted and allowed to come to fruit in order to examine quality of fruit. Interior shot of office where records of experiment are kept. HAS over nursery producing varieties produced experimentally. MS of man removing bud sticks from apple bush. LS and CU of people budding seedlings. Shots of seedlings receiving cultivation, being sold to fruit growers and being planted in commercial orchard. Sequence on planting operation, pruning. Winter shot of trees being pruned. Sequence on buds of different varieties being crafted into tree limb.

Timelapse sequence of an ear of wheat (Triticum sp.) germinating and growing in a rhizobox. The ear contains numerous individual seeds, which germinate separately on the ear. This wheat was filmed over 12 days.

United States Navy presents: "" The Physiology of Foods"" A short film on finding food in a survival situation. It is about producing heat and energy. He starts a fire. Starts with carbohydrates from plants. A second source is fat - available from the animals he procures and seeds. In survival fats should be eaten without abandon. Proteins are needed for growth and repair of tissue - without it humans suffer from ""hidden starvation."" Proteins are available in meats, eggs, beans, and nuts. The final is mineral and vitamins, which you get from eating different things. Caloric usage is explained - always lay down whenever possible in a survival situation. They explain the how naturally growing produce like dandelion greens, pokeberries, and walnuts are great alternatives. It further explains that absence of food is possible as long as water is available. Insects are shown in order to explain that they are a possible food sources as are all mammals and reptiles. Soldier kills, beheads and eats a snake

01:00:01:27 SOT RR '... Seeds of greater freedom & trust were sown... take root & grow' (0:23) /

Anti Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) cartoons in the United States. Chalk-Talk type cartoons: Animated cartoon of a farmer planting seeds. The farmer walks away. A plant grows. A huge grasshopper devouring leaves. The grasshopper hops away. A large pumpkin. The pumpkin becomes jack-o-lantern and its teeth are carved to spell 'Ford'. Location: United States USA. Date: 1919.

Version 2 also transferred but story is cut and out of order - use version 1 (this one). <br/> <br/>Pro Patria presentation. Produced by British Instructional Films Ltd. <br/> <br/>A poppy seed head is turned and hundreds of seeds drop out. Dandelion clock seen in C/U. Time lapse photography showing how the seed parachutes open and close depending on the weather. Seed flying over dry ground. When it comes upon a wet area the parachute closes and seed drops down. Alternate sunshine and dew can make the parachute open and close so that it finds the right spot. The thistle reaches its home by a bomb dropping device. C/U of the seed pod. Parachute will open and drop seed when it hits a tree or flower. The stonecroft (?) seeds are attached to flowers which bounce on the rocks to find a home. <br/> <br/>Nightshade seeds have hooks so they can "hitch a ride" with passing animals. Burdock seed pods sticks to a coat sleeve. A balloon like seed pod is seen under a microscope. Its hooks are strong enough to grip a piece of paper. We see this illustrated. There are also "stings" on the seed pod which ensure that pods carried in animal fur will be scratched out. Seeds carried on coats of animals usually have "wool" attached to them. This attracts dew which feeds the young plant. Majority of seeds have hard outside case. This is illustrated by a runner bean seed. Cucumber seed clamps itself to the ground. <br/> <br/>Cress seed absorbs water, a sticky jelly forms which glues the seed down. The heronsbill seed is like a living corkscrew. Seen in C/U. Changes in the atmosphere affect the handle at the top causing the seed to be screwed into the ground. Dandelion (?) seeds have hooks to hold it down. Sunflower uses seed case as a battering ram. Various saplings grow in time lapse. Cress plants strangle a rival. House leek (?) stores moisture in its thick leaves. Grass stores moisture rations in underground bulbs. Grass growing. <br/> <br/>Farmer's oat, if sewn upside down it cannot grow. If falls on surface of ground cannot move to a better position. Wild oat however is armed with long filaments which push its neighbours off the parent's stem. Time lapse. The seed heads move around the ground (presumably on currents of air). When a head finds a suitable hole it takes root. <br/> <br/>Time lapse of root growing. C/U of bristles around its neck. Moral of the film: "Be very careful how you sow wild oats - for as you've seen, once sown they are practically certain to take root and grow". <br/> <br/>Note: there are two prints of this film transferred. The print catalogued here (version 1) is a better print and is marked as such on can. Version 2 has very jumpy sound and shots are not in correct order. Another B.I.F. film called "Seed-Time" shares some shots but is silent. 16mm mute and track negs exist.

1960s: Time lapse of seeds growing.

Due to drought, farmers in Moosejaw plants new crops such as lentils, with scenes of fields of crops, farm equipment, and threshers. Farmers Lee Moats and Bob Langdon report on their productivity. Seed grower Greg Simpson comments on the volatility of the market. PLEASE NOTE News anchor and reporter image and audio, along with any commercial production excerpts, are for reference purposes only and are not clearable and cannot be used within your project.

This is duplicate of STARTING IN LIFE - version 1, but with jumpy sound and shots in a different order. Some sequences may be incomplete. Use version 1 - 1825.01. <br/> <br/>Version one description follows. <br/> <br/>Pro Patria presentation. Produced by British Instructional Films Ltd. <br/> <br/>A poppy seed head is turned and hundreds of seeds drop out. Dandelion clock seen in C/U. Time lapse photography showing how the seed parachutes open and close depending on the weather. Seed flying over dry ground. When it comes upon a wet area the parachute closes and seed drops down. Alternate sunshine and dew can make the parachute open and close so that it finds the right spot. The thistle reaches its home by a bomb dropping device. C/U of the seed pod. Parachute will open and drop seed when it hits a tree or flower. The stonecroft (?) seeds are attached to flowers which bounce on the rocks to find a home. <br/> <br/>Nightshade seeds have hooks so they can "hitch a ride" with passing animals. Burdock seed pods sticks to a coat sleeve. A balloon like seed pod is seen under a microscope. Its hooks are strong enough to grip a piece of paper. We see this illustrated. There are also "stings" on the seed pod which ensure that pods carried in animal fur will be scratched out. Seeds carried on coats of animals usually have "wool" attached to them. This attracts dew which feeds the young plant. Majority of seeds have hard outside case. This is illustrated by a runner bean seed. Cucumber seed clamps itself to the ground. <br/> <br/>Cress seed absorbs water, a sticky jelly forms which glues the seed down. The heronsbill seed is like a living corkscrew. Seen in C/U. Changes in the atmosphere affect the handle at the top causing the seed to be screwed into the ground. Dandelion (?) seeds have hooks to hold it down. Sunflower uses seed case as a battering ram. Various saplings grow in time lapse. Cress plants strangle a rival. House leek (?) stores moisture in its thick leaves. Grass stores moisture rations in underground bulbs. Grass growing. Farmer's oat, if sewn upside down it cannot grow. If falls on surface of ground cannot move to a better position. Wild oat however is armed with long filaments which push its neighbours off the parent's stem. Time lapse. The seed heads move around the ground (presumably on currents of air). When a head finds a suitable hole it takes root. <br/> <br/>Time lapse of root growing. C/U of bristles around its neck. Moral of the film: "Be very careful how you sow wild oats - for as you've seen, once sown they are practically certain to take root and grow".

01:00:13:00,Indians playing musical instruments, Long shot of magician, pulls out of his mouth small flags one after the other, Magician takes eggs out of his mouth, Magician doing a string trick, Magician sets string on fire, Coin slides uphill from magician's hands, Magician turns toy bird into nine live ones, Mountain goat stands on top of bottles, The mango seed that grows before your eyes, Magician uses magic flute to do mango trick, Magician lifts stone with his eyelids, Tourist explorer looks at magician, Shell game, The snake charmer

Events related to China's First Thermonuclear Test. Mushroom cloud rises in the sky. Results of the thermonuclear test are studied. Test dogs in underground bunkers are found to be more protected then those on the surface during the test. Man shoes eggs laid by chicken after the test. Monkeys in sheltered headquarters are discovered completely protected from the effects of the blast. Exposed test buildings on the surface are completely destroyed but the semi underground buildings are in good condition. View of germinated seeds that germinated even after being exposed to the test. Crops in field continue to grow even after being exposed. People buy newspapers, cheer and celebrate on streets in China. English translation overlays Chinese narration. Location: China. Date: October 1966.

LEARNING ABOUT FLOWERS AND THEIR SEEDS (SECOND EDITION)

KUDZU FTG FOR ERIN HAYES CS VO ON THE SCOTTS COMPANY LABORATORY TRYING TO CHANGE GARDENING BY INJECTING SEEDS W/ GENES FROM OTHER SPECIES THAT WILL MAKE GRASS AND FLOWERS GROW IN WAYS NEVER SEEN BEFORE / GENETICALLY MODIFIED GRASS

Several shots of downtown Toronto traffic on rainy day, some cars with lights on. Shots of rainstorm in downtown Toronto, lowering clouds, traffic, cars with lights on, streets awash, trees dripping. Several TRAVELLING SHOTs, PANs, static shots in Toronto park, shafts of sunligh8t piercing mist, woman walking dog. Several CSs of weeds growing up through cracks in concrete steps and through seams in pavement. Several CSs of pigeons walking about on pavement, perched on roof tops and moving about in railway yard. CSs of house sparrows foraging for food on wet ground. Several shots of polluted stream on outskirts of city. MSs of anti-nuclear demonstrators marching around sample basement fallout shelter with placards.

Liberia - Africa's Only Republic. A tour of Liberia in the late 1940s. 1940s, Africa, Liberia, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, men banging on drum, native men carrying hampers on their backs, Liberia on map of Africa, rural land, fertile jungle and rivers, brightly colored flowers on tree, African Moon Flower, Poinsettias, Hibiscus, village of huts, tribal living, women pounding and winnowing rice, farmers planting cassava, Elaeis guineensis, African Oil Palm, man climbing African Oil Palm tree and chopping down branches, men rowing fishing boat, women trapping fish in freshwater pool, man weaving on loom, mat makers, blacksmith, villagers building hut, family carrying possessions on heads into hut, family sitting and playing outside hut, tribal meeting, young native men carrying hampers on their backs, children carrying goods on their heads to market, market goods, African peppers, African Oil Palm fruit, Liberian citrus and sugarcane, dried minnows, hand carved ivory, leopard pet, vendor displaying cloth, US Trading Company operated by Firestone, men buying goods from clerks, airplane landing at Roberts Field Airport, airport terminal building, Farmington River, modern homes on Firestone plantations, base hospital, modern clinic, Firestone radio towers, people playing golf on Firestone golf course, native rugby teams playing game on plantation field, Liberian stilt dance at village, native people performing traditional warrior dance, latex industry, rubber industry, latex dripping from tree, men chopping tree trunk with axes, felling trees, felled trees falling to ground, workers clearing jungle, workers burning felled jungle growth, billowing smoke from fire, workers planting rubber plant seeds in nursery, young rubber trees growing in nursery, workers bud grafting rubber trees, worker chopping off seedling top, grafted shoot from new bud becomes trunk of superior rubber tree, technician looking through transit to align rows for field in tree, workers marking tree locations with stakes, worker digging hole in clay soil with shovel, worker filling hole with top soil, worker planting pruned bud grafted rubber tree, worker looking at young rubber tree, rubber trees in field, worker using knife to tap mature rubber tree, drops of latex oozing from rubber tree, rapper tapping, native men carrying buckets and knives leaving village to tap rubber trees on plantation, tapper removing string of latex from tree and cutting into tree, tapper pouring dash of anticoagulant into collection bowl, latex dripping from rubber tree into bowl, man tapping tree from two levels on tree trunk, man hitting gong on hilltop, tapper collecting latex from rubber trees into buckets, tappers carrying buckets of latex balanced on pole on their backs, tappers carrying buckets of latex walking towards division station, buckets of latex being weighed, recorded and poured into receiving tank, truck hauling latex to central processing factory, latex being emptied from truck into receiving tank, Firestone Processing Factory, fresh latex being converted into commercial grade rubber, worker operating centrifuges, latex in centrifuges, workers moving latex drums, workers processing latex into dry rubber in large vats, latex blubber being chopped into large slices, hunks of blubber sent down chute, workers putting blubber pads through rollers, workers examining rubber sheets hung up to dry, workers operating hydraulic press squeezing rubber sheets into bales, baled rubber being loaded onto lighters, heavily laden lighters traveling down Farmington River to Atlantic, lighters traveling towards anchored freighter, cargo being loaded from lighter onto freighter, Harvey Samuel Firestone portrait, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Jr. seated at desk talking to man, American and Liberian scientists working in Firestone Plantation laboratory, children playing outside and running inside school when instructed by teacher, teacher instructing students in classroom, Firestone Plantation school, native medical technicians vaccinating Liberians against smallpox and examining them for African sleeping sickness, doctor examining girl in clinic, doctors and nurses treating patients and performing surgery in hospital, researchers looking through microscopes, Monrovia, cityscape along coast, street scene, Matilda Newport Monument, government buildings, legislative building, President William Tubman delivering State of the Nation address to legislature, train traveling near harbor, fishermen repairing net, sunset, silhouettes of people looking at water at sunset

CU, TL OF SEEDS SPROUTING, GROWING

Filmmaker: Douglas Fromings Film showing every stage of the production of dark fired tobacco at Kasiya (40 miles from Lilongwe) in Nyasaland (Malawi), from the issue of seed to the despatch of baled leaf to the Limbe Auction floors. Fromings supplied five typed pages of notes to accompany the film. He provided some commentary on the footage, and also covered the general background of the dark fired tobacco cultivation project. Detailed description The film begins in bright sunlight in a clearing, where a large group of African males are sitting on the ground. Douglas Fromings (DF) is seated at a table. In his notes he identifies this as a meeting of tobacco growers in 1956, outside a village in Malawi. An African male is seated next to DF, addressing the group. DF identifies him as Simeon, the Head Instructor. The growers are seen queuing to register and for seed issue before the film pans across seed beds being prepared for planting. Dry grass is laid on tilled and ridged beds to burn off weeds, and seed is mixed in a watering can. A tractor pulls a trailer surrounded by a group of men, into a field. They are carrying small saplings in plastic pockets which they proceed to plant, with close-ups of this activity. This appears to be part of the afforestation programme which DF initiated and mentions in his memoir. 'Growers were encouraged to plant their own small stands of a quick growing teak called Gmelina'. Some of the planting appears to be carried out by schoolboys. This section precedes the arrival of a limousine flying a Union Jack, perhaps an official visit by a dignitary. High-spirited football match with spectators on touchlines, at the end of which an open-topped bus pulls away, followed by another football sequence, this time with younger boys. DF's notes remark that 'Mr Mumba was very keen on football and the Board paid for a bus to bring a team from another market'.

PRETTY TO LOOK AT AND PROFITABLE TO HARVEST. CLARK WOOD'S FAMILY HAS BEEN GROWING SUNFLOWERS ON SOUTHWEST MISSOURI'S FLAT FERTILE FARMLAND FOR FIVE YEARS. TEN DOLLARS OF SEED PER ACRE CAN YEILD AT 110-DOLLARS PER ACRE, LATER:SUNFLOWERS GROWN AS A GRAIN CROP ARE MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN THEIR WEEDY COUSINS. THE PLANT WATERS ITSELF WITH DEW EVEN IN DRY WEATHER. THE HEADS BEND EAST TO SHIELD THEMSELVES FROM HAIL AND BIRDS. BUT FALL HARVESTING HAS TO BE TIMED JUST RIGHT OR A LOT OF SEED FALLS ON THE GROUND.PENNINGTON SEED COMPANY PACKAGES SUNFLOWER SEED FROM THE MIDWEST AND PLAINS AT ITS GREENFIELD MISSOURI PROCESSING PLANT.AND PENNINGTON IS PICKY AOUT IS BIRD SEED, NOBODY, ESPECIALLY WALMART, ITS LARGEST CUSTOMER, WATNS A BUG IN THE BAG.MOST SUNFLOWER FARMERS GROW THE OILIER SEED VARIETIES. THAT WAY, IF THEY'RE NOT SOLD FOR COOKING OIL, THEY QUICKLY BECOME BIRDSEE BY THE TRUCKLOAD.STEVE GRANT REPORTING.GTAG: SUNFLOWER SEEDS THAT PEOPLE EAT ARE KNOWN AS CONFECTIONARIES. BUT, SMALLER YIELD IN THE FIELD MAKES FOR HIGHER PRICES IN THE STORE BECAUSE THEY'RE A HIGHER FOOD QUALITY AND ARE ROASTED AND SALTED TO IMPROVE FLAVOR.