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A series of films exploring the work of pioneering French financier and philanthropist Albert Kahn who, in 1908, launched an ambitious project to create a photographic archive of the planet
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Episodes
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
Documentary about the world's first colour camera system from 1908.
May 2007
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
When Auguste Leon visited Scandinavia in 1910, he found widespread deprivation and famine.
May 2007
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
Kahn's global circumnavigation and Stephane Passet's 1913 journey to China and India.
May 2007
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
Tracing the work of Kahn's photographers throughout France during the Great War.
May 2007
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
How Albert Kahn's photographic images of World War One were captured.
May 2007
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Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the French battlefields.
Sept 2008