Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), Tours, France
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521200.3
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), Tours, France. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from the ground level, looking directly at the front of the building. There are numerous people walking around, with a family group in the foreground. There are tram tracks in the roads.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Austin Edwards Frena Films, photographic film manufacturer