A Premo film holder.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1908
Materials
Wood, Meta
Measurements
165 x 120 mm; 18 mm (thickness)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524787.3
Summary
A Premo film holder. The unit has a wooden frame with metal internals and slider. It is sized to fix a 5x4 plate camera. On the top is stamped 'Premo film pack adapter' On the slider is' The Premo Camera' Inside the back plate is 'Canada Pat Aug 25 03 British Pat Apr 21 03 France Pat Apr 18 03 German Pat Pending U.S.A. Pat May 03'
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