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Europe: After the Fire

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Middle East: The Birth of Nations

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Far East: Expeditions to Empires

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Japan in Colour

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The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

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Japan in Colour

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Dec 6, 2007

Some of the most important of all the 72,000 colour images in Kahn's Archive were shot during three separate visits (in 1908, 1912 and 1926) to Japan. As an international financier, Kahn had established a network of contacts that included some of the most prominent members of Japan's business, banking and political elites. Consequently, Kahn's photographers were granted privileged access to places that would have otherwise been off limits - including some of the royal palaces, where they shot colour portraits of the princes and princesses from Japan's Imperial family. But some of their most fascinating images capture moments from the lives of ordinary Japanese people at work and play. This film showcases Kahn's treasury of films and autochromes of silk-farmers, Shinto monks, schoolchildren, porcelain merchants, Kabuki stars and geishas - pictures that were recorded at a time when this fascinating country was going through momentous changes.

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The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

TV Series

20071h0.5

Documentary

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Japan in Colour

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Dec 6, 2007

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