Leven der bijen, Het (1917)
1917 · Silent film · 25 min · dir. Willy Mullens
Synopsis
A popular-scientific film about beekeeping. The beekeeper Jan Luberti gives a tour of his Bijenlust bee farm near The Hague, and shows the many aspects of keeping bees, and how they make honey: the straw basket, the modern bee hive, the honeycomb, the queen honeybees, from the egg up to the swarming. The film also shows how the old queen and her hive are transferred to a new setting by means of a basket, how the queens engage in a battle of life and death against each other, and how the females…
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- Director
- Willy Mullens
- Running time
- 25 minutes
Cast & crew
Willy Mullens Director
