Rent The Open Road (1925)
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1h 4min
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- Synopsis:
In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land's End and John O'Groats. Entitled 'The Open Road', his remarkable travelogue was conceived as a series of shorts, 26 episodes in all, to be shown weekly at the cinema. Claude's experimental colour process failed to reach a large audience owing to heavy flicker and colour fringing. Following on from the BBC's recent documentary 'The Lost World' of Friese-Greene, the BFI National Archive has restored a special compilation of highlights from the journey, using digital intermediate technology to remove the technical defects of the original. The result is a fascinating portrait of inter-war Britain, in which town and country, people and landscapes are captured as never before, in a truly unique and rich colour palette. - Actors:
- Neil Brand, Gunther Buchwald
- Directors:
- Claude Friese-Greene
- Producers:
- Claude Friese-Greene
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Documentary, Special Interest
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