Talking to the engine driver.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521311.11
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of 2 children and a man on a railway platform talking to an engine driver. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from ground level and shows them in front of a large steam locomotive on a open-air platform.
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