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A Plant With Nerves : The Sensitive Plant

Item number (ISN):

416327

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1924 ?

Item number (ISN):

416327

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1924 ?

Production company:

Pathé

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

This film shows the application of various influences on the Mimosa Pudica (also known as the Sensitive Plant). The footage shows: close-up of man placing a potted plant on a table; extreme close-up of fern-like plant; extreme close-up pencil tip touching leaves of the plant; extreme close-up of pencil tip touching plant leaves and leaves begin to close up; extreme close-up of pencil tip touching the stalk of the plant and the leaves closest to the stalk start to close up; close-up of plant being affected by chloroform; man placing chloroform pad close to the plant and covering the plant with a glass bell; leaves closing up and plant "going to sleep"; close-up of plant reacting to heat; an electric bulb placed near the plant and leaves closing up; demonstration of the plant's sensitivity to light; lights are dimmed and the leaves close up.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Listed in the November 1931 catalogue of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau. ~2. Listed as Reel 202 in the List of Non-Inflammable Pathéscope Films (Fourth Edition).~3. Given the 90-year rule, this title is under copyright until 31 December 2014.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

499998

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3013/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

844208

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3013/C

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

844209

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3013/D

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

913998

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3013/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2014.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Pathé.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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