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Pioneers of Photography: The Pencil of Nature

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on BBC Two England

"I do not profess to have perfected an art but to have commenced one..." (Henry Fox Talbot, 1839)

At his home, Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, Fox Talbot had to overcome many difficulties before he achieved his first photographs.

Contributors

Narrator:
Brian Coe, Curator of the Kodak Museum
Quotations spoken by:
Hugh Burden
Quotations spoken by:
John Leeson
Series Adviser:
Aaron Scharf
Rostrum Cameraman:
Ivor Richardson
Film Cameraman:
Peter Sargent
Film Editor:
Alan J. Cumner-Price
Producer:
Ann Turner
Source: Radio Times

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