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 1521243.21
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 by the side of a wooden fence, behind a man with a horse-driven carriage. Additionally, there is a woman in the right foreground. just in front of a shop. There are two substantial 3 story wooden buildings in the background. There are high mountains close in the left 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