I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Charles Urban was a film producer and distributor who, like George Albert Smith, tried to produce a commercially successful motion picture film process -- more difficult than still color photography, simply because it required more time for each frame's exposure. He found a fine partner for this early experiment in Percy Smith, who was working on time lapse photography -- take exposures at a rate of a frame a minute and then exhibit at a more normal sixteen frames a second, and a still life becomes a moving subject.As a result, this short subject of several flowers bursting from their buds, while it may not be very interesting to the modern viewer, is important in a couple of technical ways. Anyone interesting in the history and evolution of motion pictures should be fascinated.