The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

tv show

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10 total episodes

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2 seasons

First Aired April 19, 2007

Overview

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century.

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Men of the World

Season 1 - Episode 2 - 1h 0m

Air Date

April 26, 2007

Overview

Men Of The World – the second of this fascinating, five-part series chronicling the adventures of Kahn's photographers as they journeyed around the globe – tells the story of Kahn and Dutertre's intrepid global odyssey: an adventure that would produce some of the earliest-known colour pictures taken in the US, Japan, China and Brazil.