Still image of Wildflowers in Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 575.
English
250 ft
16mm
Kodachrome
Silent
"Robert P. Kehoe, who won Honorable Mention last year with Chromatic Rhapsody, has "done it again" — only more so. In Wildflowers, with his own inimitable magic, he has gathered into light and color all the lazy loveliness of high summer. Here, as if he talked their secret language, bees drone and butterflies dance before his lens. Daisies and buttercups, the wild geranium and "butter and eggs" — a dozen flowers you do know and a score you have forgotten — nod in the warm sun with simple and unassuming beauty. Often, six blades of grass and a single bloom will comprise a moment of ineffable gaiety and song. The rough wood of a slanting black post gives accent to a field of daisies, or the delicate tracery of a "four o'clock" is a breath taking frame for a summer sunset. In Wildflowers, Mr. Kehoe has written once again a lyric testament to nature's incomparable loveliness." Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 600.
Discussed by Kehoe in "Down Among the Flowers" (Movie Makers, June 1941, 260-261, 280). In the article, Kehoe describes the simplicity of shooting a flower film, and offers a chart indicating the frequency of flower species as they appear in the film.
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