https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c165a92c-c57a-4c19-b992-053041cd3aa3 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This color film compiles late 1940’s time-lapse footage by pioneering photographer John Ott. The filmmaker is regarded as the “father of time-lapse” and was well-regarded for his research on the effects of artificial and natural full-spectrum light upon both plant and human life. International Film Bureau Inc. logo (0:08). Titles: “John Ott Pictures Presents” and “Time Lapse Photography” over a 1938 Bell & Howell Filmo 70-F 16mm movie camera (0:20). An iris blooms and wilts in time-lapse photography (0:34). A young boy swings a golf club twice in slow motion (0:50). A black and white urban view of the Chicago River, with movable bridges raising and lowering in fast-motion. A more recent shot in color follows (1:16). TWA jet airliners on a runway. Passengers deplane and jets taxi quickly (1:44). Animation: A lightning bolt jumps between two rose-colored clouds (2:06). The animation process is revealed on an animation stand. A glass plate lowers over a painted cell. A frame counter registers an exposure. John Ott repeats the process, viewed from behind (2:12). A close up of the printed silent 16mm color film strip with double-perforations for projector sprockets. Frames advance one at a time (2:49). Animation resumes with a whirling tornado effect that transforms into an optical swirl, a glowing sphere emitting rays, and finally, a rocky planet (3:00). A rose in bloom, and as a sequence of still images on a film strip, each taken 5 minutes apart (3:28). 24fps rose blooms continue (3:58). The Bell & Howell Filmo camera registers single-frame exposures using a motorized trigger device (4:11). An array of lamps with reflectors mounted under a greenhouse skylight. The lamps are turned on as shutters block out the sunlight (4:22). John Ott operates one of several 16mm film cameras. Lens attachments point at a cluster of flowering plants. Lamps flash on and off. Ott makes camera adjustments (4:49). Ott with his customized electric control panel. Wires run away from fuse boxes (5:18). The gears of a timed motor turn. Ott makes notes on a clipboard while exposures continue automatically (5:26). An outdoor construction of boxes raised on stilts. Inside the boxes, we see a retractable lid and the limb of a tree (5:48). A laceleaf plant sways wildly in time-lapse (6:32). An uncontrolled shot of a blurry flower in fast-motion (6:43). Blooming daffodils explode (6:48). Ott lifts a glass box away from a microscope and peers into the viewfinder. A petri dish sits below the lens (6:54). Cell division in time-lapse (7:30). Four reels of 16mm film are unspooled across a frame counter and synchronizer. A gloved hand marks the film strips with a red china marker (7:51). A film editor operates a Moviola, which illuminates his face (8:13). A vibrant blooming rose. Pink alstroemerias unfold their petals gracefully (8:51). John Nash Ott (1909-2000) shot his first time-lapse film in 1927, and continued developing greenhouse gardening and lighting methods well into the 1980’s, when he co-founded OttLite Technologies. His first of several books, “My Ivory Cellar: The Story of Time-Lapse Photography” was published in 1958. Ott’s other time-lapse clients included the Walt Disney Company, the Sante Fe Railroad, and the 1970 Barbara Streisand film, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.” We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PQZmXJ0En4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:01:47 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c165a92c-c57a-4c19-b992-053041cd3aa3 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.