Episode number 2 of Series “The Developing image”.
This program contains a technical survey of the main photographic processes from the daguerreotype to the Kodak#1. Explores an antique tintype gallery and shows a wet-collodion negative made during the American Civil War.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
305962
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Cameras
Crafts & Visual Arts → Cameras
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photographers
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photography
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photography - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photography - Processing
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)