Box and lid containing 16 Frena Gelatine Silver film negatives and dividers.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
116 x 91 x 17 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521311.1
Summary
A cardboard box containing 16 Frena Gelatine Silver film negatives. It also contains brown light card deviders,which have cut outs on the long sides to match and protect the negatives. The top of the lid is grey with an ornate watermark and burgundy sides. The box is a darker brown, again with burgundy sides. Lid Markings: Printed in burgundy, "20 Frena Films. The Austin-Edwards Frena Films. Patent Quarter Plate Size. R & J Beck Ltd. 68, Cornhill, London, EC". Around these titles are printed, "To be protected from light and moisture. Teme la luce e l'umidità. Craint la lumiere et l'humidité. Vor Licht und Feuchtigkeit zu bewahren." Handwritten on a white label on the top left hand side of the lid top, "Bordeaux". Left side is printed, Double Instantaneous. (Celluloid)" Right side is -Damaged Printed on the bottom side is "The Austin-Edwards". Top side is bare. Box Markings on the base: printed "Note that the dull surface of these Films is the sensitive side".
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