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    Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

    Gardening lessons from the late 1920s, centring on the cultivation of beans, including some wonderful time-lapse footage and inter-titles to match.

    Medium

    • Film

    Theme

    • Natural World

    Genre

    • Ephemeral

    Type

    • Non-fiction

    Epoch

    • 20th Century

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    SourceSourceInternet Archive / Prelinger Archives
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    Published

    May 18, 2017

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