Living Flowers
About Living Flowers
Two women take tea on a Chinese terrace. A mandarin offers one of them a flower. She refuses. He tramples the rest of his garden. The flowers grow back with women's heads and turn on him.
Cast & crew
More about Living Flowers
Gaston Velle directed for Pathé. Segundo de Chomón is credited with the photography. The French title is Les Fleurs animées. The print is stencil-colored. A copy runs 4 minutes 40 seconds.
Themes
Look
Segundo de Chomón photographed the terrace and the garden. Pathé stencil-colored the print.
Preservation
The George Eastman Museum holds a 35mm nitrate master positive.
Notes
- The Australian Corrick Family Entertainers toured the film and advertised it as the finest color film of the twentieth century.
- The George Eastman Museum holds a 35mm nitrate master positive, gift of David Eve (1999.0546.0001).
- The revenge is the flowers themselves, each grown back with a woman's head.
Scenes
- The mandarin stamps the flower bed flat.
- The flowers rise again, each with a woman's face.
Also available
- George Eastman Museum
