BBC The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn 09of10 The End of a World

The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

Arts, Technology Documentary hosted by Veronika Hyks, published by BBC in 2009 - English narration





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The Wonderful World of Albert Khan

In 1908, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched one of the most ambitious projects in the history of photography. A pacifist, internationalist and utopian idealist, Kahn decided to use his private fortune to improve understanding between the nations of the world. To this end, he created what he called his Archive of the Planet. For the next two decades, he dispatched professional photographers to document the everyday lives of people in more than 50 countries all around the world. Kahn's wealth enabled him to supply his photographers with the most advanced camera technology available. They used the autochrome - the first user-friendly camera system capable of producing true-colour photographs.




9) The End of a World
This programme in the series shows the films shot by Kahn's cameraman Lucien Le Saint who joined the French fishing fleets in Newfoundland, the film and colour autochromes shot by Frederic Gadmer who recorded Voodoo religious practices in Benin and the experimental colour films produced by Camille Sauvageot in 1928, depicting the lives of farmers, Gypsies and bullfighters in France, and Kahn's
demise: once one of the richest men in Europe, he died
penniless.


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* Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
* Video Bitrate: 1827 kbps
* Video Resolution: 704 x 400
* Video Aspect Ratio: (16:9)
* Frames Per Second: 25
* Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
* Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
* Audio Streams: 2
* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime Per Part: 50mins
* Number Of Parts: 10
* Part Size: 700 MB
* Source: DVD
* Encoded by: Harry65



Links
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1) Further Information

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/about.html