Mountainous village scene.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1904
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521243.20
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of a mountainous village scene.The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view, taken at street level,shows a number of men, women and children standing in the middle of of a street. Additionally, there are several indistinct people in the left foreground. There are substantial 2 and 3 story wooden buildings and sheds on both sides of the road. There are high mountains close in the background.
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