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The Great War in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn - The Soldiers' Story

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In 1908, the French banker Albert Kahn gave a team of photographers the world's first portable colour cameras. They created an 'archive of the planet': a collection of over 72,000 pictures taken in more than 50 countries. The first programme in this series shares pictures from the First World War.