Box and lid containing 11 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 1521312.1
Summary
A cardboard box containing 11 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 light yellow sides. The box is also light yellow, with light yellow sides. Lid Markings: Printed in black, "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." Left side is damaged, but has stamped in light blue "1147". Right side is damaged, but has printed in black "SHOT". Top and bottom sides are bare. No markings on the base.
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