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Interesting colour film London streets 1926

Started by Classicus, May 20, 2013, 13:50:34

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Interesting final colour footage extract of London in 1926 by Claude Friese-Greene from his film "The Open Road"....
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M
   
   http://www.bfi.org.uk/blu-rays-dvds/open-road
   
   Amazon:
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Road-DVD-Neil-Brand/dp/B000TVNR1E/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1369052537&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Open+Road
   
   "Claude Friese-Greene's London footage was filmed on his homecoming after an 840-mile road trip across Britain from Land's End to John O'Groats. An early innovator of colour technology, Friese-Greene developed a system initiated by his father, using colour-sensitive black and white film shot and projected via green and red filters.
   
   His 1925 road trip exploited this method to capture a precious record of British life, intended to be shown in cinemas as 26 separate episodes. Deposited for preservation with the BFI National Archive in the late 1950s, selections from Friese-Greene's footage were featured in the TV series The Lost World of Friese-Greene, a co-production between the BFI and the BBC broadcast in 2006. The full restoration of "The Open Road" was released on BFI DVD in 2007."