![]() ![]() ![]() Kahn wasn’t the first rich businessman to be seduced by this new technology (which was exclusively expensive). Autochrome plates, which produced the first-ever full-colour photographs, had only recently been made available commercially by their inventors, the Lumière brothers. On his return to Paris the following year, Kahn attended a magic-lantern projection of slides showing scenes from Algiers and other parts of North Africa in dazzling colour. The trip was, in a sense, a trial run for what was to come. ![]() The trio’s journey from France to the United States, Japan and China and back via Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean was recorded in 3,500 stereoscopic plates and 1.5 hours of film. He also sent him to Pathé Studios for lessons in moving-image making. In the months leading up to their departure, Kahn had sent Dutertre to train with a specialist in taking photographs and developing photographic plates. But this was no ordinary business trip and his young chauffeur, Albert Dutertre, wasn’t there to drive. Accompanying him were his business manager and his chauffeur. In November 1908, a wealthy French banker named Albert Kahn set off on a trip around the world. ![]()
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