The Open Road (Original title)
Date: 1925 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: A car journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, filmed by Claude Friese-Greene using his own two-colour process. First nine reels in series trade shown November 1925, when a full twenty-six episodes were announced. Production and release of these continued until at least August 1926.Shotlist: Unedited colour footage of a motor tour from Land's End to John O'Groats, originally advertised as 26 episodes (first nine trade shown November 1925). The reel numbers do not correspond to the original episodes, nor are they in chronological order. The intertitles are generally not in order. Filmed by Claude Friese-Greene (and others?) using his own two-colour film process. Rl.1 [204405A] Females at an open-air swimming pool slide down a chute into the water, seaside pier in background. Their costumes bear the letters PCC (22). A toddler playing with toy boat in a rockpool (61). Sunset over trees, Devon (86). Quayside at St Ives, Cornwall, with fishing boats in the harbour (100- 106). A man and a toddler in a cobbled street (St Ives?) (120). Woman and girl in backyard, with washing on line. View down cobbled street to harbour (St Ives?) (135). Plymouth Hoe (146-153). Game of bowls in progress (161). Woman playing on a minature golf course (167). An artist painting in a cottage garden, a woman tending flowers (198). A farmyard in Cornwall (206). St Michael's Mount (216-229). Woman and child on beach, with St Michael's Mount in the background (240). HAS of beach at St Ives, showing long rows of tents (252). Views on deck of a naval launch, battleship in background (293). Children playing at the Barbican; policeman talks to them (329). Intertitles (393). Cornwall: sunset over trees, the Friese-Greene car drives past. Sunset over sea (440). Artist painting at Lamorna Cove (476)(481). Rl.2 part 1? [608040A] Various shots of children on ?Torquay beach including a group of three red-headed girls (68). Group of adults on beach, some seated on deckchairs (75). A doll and a teddy bear on deckchairs (87). CU bees visiting flowers (107). Crowds on Torquay beach (122). Various shots of children playing in the sand and sea (162). Intertitles (174). Farmer loading hay onto a cart (192). Farmer drinks from a large bottle of cider [name E. Budleigh on cart] (204). Intertitles (210). LS windmill at sunset (227). Half-moon above trees (238). Intertitles (251). Succession of close-ups with dissolves of ?Wedgwood plates (324). Rl.2 part 2? [205909A] View down wooded valley (21). Country road with hills in background (36). The car drives along the suspension bridge into Conway Castle (52). LS Conway Castle (67). Waterfall amid woods (85). Stone building by bridge (48). View down river with woods either side and hills in background (112). Panning shot of hill slopes (123). Intertitles (130). The car coming down unmade-up country lane in Devon (140). Quarry? (153). Intertitles (163). Panning shot across the sea of Torquay (186). Two women admiring flowers (204). Intertitles (237). Scenes of villages, rivercraft and trees along the River Yealm (255). The car drives into Cockington (264). Intertitles (270). Two young women in Cockington. A charabanc passes by (277). Line of cows coming down same road (291). Rear view of cows (298). One of the women taking a snapshot of the other in Cockington (310). Intertitles (316). Young women bathing off rocks in sea (322). Two women dozing on rocks (332). People walking through gardens with palm trees, including [the same?] two young women (357). Intertitles (364). View across ornamental lake at Dawlish (378). People by the lake (388). Man leading horse and cart with large load of hay down country road. The car comes up behind (401). [Described in intertitles as `the second stage'] Rl.3 part 1 [204287A] A white-coated handler with a pack of hounds on Exmoor (22). The car in the Exe Valley (53). Horse and trap at Badgeworthy. Exmoor, church at Oare (162). Intertitles (243). Huntsmen on horseback on Exmoor. Handler with pack by stream (305). The huntsmen waiting on horseback on Exmoor, then riding off (348). Girl holding an umbrella sits on a sea wall, cove in the background (Exmouth?) (369). Hens in a garden. Boy eating apple (409). Exterior of Walter Raleigh's house, elderly woman in black dress in front of the house (444). Rl.3 part 2 [204332A] Cyclist on a country road (near Balmoral?) (11). A horse-drawn reaper in action (61). Stooks (74). LS Balmoral (81). Haymaking. Boy riding a horse pulling hay. Pitchforking hay onto a stack (135). Barrels outside a distillery. A distillery employee examining a glass containing whisky (159). Burning stubble (178). The car passes a BP advertising hoarding (188). Pan across the Balmoral Estate towards the Castle (205). Sheep in a pen (222). Man shearing sheep (246). Balmoral Castle (273). Thatched cottage on Exmoor (295). Stone bridge at ?Bickleigh with children on the river bank (310). LS Dulverton (321). Car driving through Exmoor (350). The Winsford Meet: huntsmen and women gathered on horseback in village (362). Intertitles (375). Boats in harbour at Lossiemouth (389). Pan across golf links towards a lighthouse (406). Busy street scenes in Aberdeen with traffic, horse-drawn carts, trams (418). Distant view of ?Aberdeen (428). Workmen rolling barrels in the yard of a distillery (440). Rl.4 part 1 [204322A] The Roman baths at Bath, tourists at the water's edge. Keeper tickling the goldfish (88). Oxen at work on Earl Bathurst's estate near Cirencester, pulling a haycart onto which men pitch hay (107). The car passes workmen digging a hole in the road by a row of cottages in ?Somerset. Washing on a line (151). Wells Cathedral exterior (184). Gardens in Wells, a well in the Cathedral grounds (223). View from the car travelling up the Cheddar Gorge, passing tourist traffic including an open-top charabanc and a motor cycle combo. Pedestrians in the Gorge (255). The sands at Weston-super-Mare with pony traps and children on donkeys (264-287). Children's fancy dress parade (311). The oxen on Earl Bathurst's estate pulling haycart, haymaking scenes (440)(450). [Second copy 610232A stops at 161ft] Rl.4 part 2 [608042A] Shipbuilding on Clydeside: an iron plate is hoisted up the side of a ship. A riveter at work (70). Reptile house at a ?zoo: leopard snake, stump-tailed lizard fed weith grubs (148). HAS square outside Glasgow Town Hall (165). Hens at Glasgow University research department (177). Glasgow Town Hall, scenes in a park with a sunken arena and bandstand (218). Children's fancy dress parade at Weston-super-Mare (285). Horse team in field, farm workers eating sandwiches (294). A girl puts a doll on the bonnet of the Friese-Greene car (328). Rl.5 [details to be added] Rl.6 [608058A] Child in a red coat and hat (13). Reservoir at Merthyr Mawr (30). Pan across Mountain Ash, showing smoking chimneys (64). View from tram travelling down Queen Street, Cardiff, showing crowds of pedestrians, other trams (107). A student rag procession in Cardiff, girl students in Japanese costume riding on a float, girl student dressed as Nell Gwyn smiles at camera (146). Ships in dock in Cardiff. Timber props unloaded from ship. A vast yard storing timber props (182). Peacock in the grounds of Cardiff Castle (205). The rag procession: girls in golf gear and gypsy dress, young man wearing small hat (255). The grimed faces of miners. Woman with baby. HAS Mountain Ash (294). Cranes at Cardiff Docks (317). Peacock at Cardiff Castle (342). Rl.7 part 1 [608043A] The River Garry (15). Woman seated at ?Laggan Locks (31). The car passing a sign for Raglan (42). Man and woman walking towards Raglan Castle (73). A maintenance diver at Laggan Locks is winched overboard after having diving helmet fitted. He is winched up again (145). A Hereford calf (158). Views of a Hereford prize bull, `Conquest' (200). Three workmen sit drinking and eating lunch at a barrel, one peels an onion (235). A woman and a dog in the garden of a country house in the West Country (268). Hereford cattle in a field by a road with large house in background. A beer lorry passes (288). Woman walking in flower garden (339). A blind terrier (341). Intertitle (352). Rl.7 part 2 [608059A] Flower garden (65). Tests to show the `fringing' effect produced by quickly moving objects photographed by the Friese-Greene two-colour process: a man holds a doll and swings it from side to side, then performs arm exercises in front of the camera (78). A head and shoulders shot of a young woman (114). Blind terrier (149). Goldfish in a pond (169). Three women eating picnic by the roadside near Raglan (200). Scenes in the pass of Glencoe, the Three Sisters, a woman seated on a rock by the Old Road through Glencoe (243). Rl.8 [204786A] View across field, sunlight passing over trees in distance (23). Winding river by stone wall, sunlight effect again (34). View from graveyard of Loch Leven (46). Highland cattle on the shoreline and in the water at Loch Leven, Castle Island in background (76). LS Ludlow (83). Ludlow castle walls seen through trees (5). Avenue with Tudor house in background (119). Flowers at castle gate (136). Blacksmith filing a horse's hoof (152). Various shots of gardens, ornamental pond, close-ups of flowers, bees and butterflies (312). View across trees and fields with ploughing team in background (Blore Heath) (324). Three men by stone wall, one scything hay, others cutting back at hedgerow (348). Sunset over a hill (363). Intertitles (373). The car (with doll on bonnet) driving through ?Market Drayton (large building - Bennion & Co printers) (386). CS horse and cart with milk churn in same street (399). Intertitles (414). CU white and red rose (symbolising the War of the Roses) (429). Various close-ups of butterflies visiting flowers, and flowers in ornamental gardens in Shrewsbury (575). Ornamental pond with fountain (593). View through gap in trees on rainbow caused by fountain water (pink/turquoise effect) (618). View of gardens (644). Rl.9 [204787A] Kilted guards marching through Stirling castle gate (21). CU bugler (31). CU piper (38). Line of guards seen through gateway (46). HA view over battlements at town and countryside with river. Pan right to show open area by Stirling castle with military motor vehicles (57). HAS church and trees (66). HAS of the town, military camp, fields and ?former gun emplacement (74). Panning shot showing industrial city in distance with factory chimneys etc (?Stoke), winding river in middle distance in flat countryside (81). Intertitles (94). Two narrow boats on inner city canal (?Stoke), with factory buildings in distance. Two children on one narrow boat, on tow path a boater with baby and boy riding a horse (100). CU boater with grubby baby [described as skipper of the `Sarah Jane' but barge bears name `Elizabeth'] (117). CS Man, dog and two children on narrow boat `Elizabeth' (141). Intertitles (160). Man working at potter's wheel (176). Rows of women seated in large hall painting Wedgwood pottery (196). CU woman painting designs on a plate (212). Various shots of Wedgwood pottery on revolving display, including a `Portland' vase, willow pattern teapots, lustre-work, and a cameo of the Prince of Wales (363). Car stops at BP petrol pumps (doll still on bonnet) and attendant pours in petrol (400). Car drives down road (441). More Wedgwood pottery on revolving display (456). Intertitles (476). A pink rainbow curving over a clump of trees [shaky picture] (498). Rl.10 part 1 [608044A] The car driving over Ashness Bridge with Derwent Water and Skiddaw in the background (20). Sunset on Ullswater (42). A car driving onto the Ballachulish ferry; the ferry crosses the straits of Loch Leven (119). Autumn tints in the woods, cows at Coniston Water. Scenes by Coniston Water (252). Car on road by loch side (266). A gypsy encampment with caravans and tents, children running about, child washing clothes in a tub (302). Ben Nevis from across Loch Eil. Fort William from across Loch Linnhe, Ben Nevis in background (349). The Glenfinnan Monument, boat on Loch Shiel (358). A flight of locks at ?Laggan (370). Rl.10 part 2 [204390A] "Episode 11". Scenes on the road between Southport and Blackpool. The car outside the shop of `Don, the Lightning Portrait Artist' (40). Blackpool Pleasure Beach, promenade, casino. The illuminations (73). Four children with a cat, one eating a jam sandwich, girl feeding dog (126). Intertitles (234). Washing on a hedge. Boy and girl playing in a rocking cradle with a pup (271). Man performing a headstand (279). Sunset at Blackpool, by pier (308). Blackpool Pleasure Beach by day, showing exterior of Noah's Ark. Holidaymakers get into a car for a Big Dipper ride. The car in motion on the Big dipper (390). Amusement stall with dolls as prizes (404). Woman holding doll (426). Outside `Don, the Lightning Portrait Artist' again. Car driver gives dolls to girl to put on the running board (474). Intertitles (504). Toddler, facial expressions (555). Intertitles (582). Rl.11 part 1 [204321A] The market square at Dumfries, pedestrians by a statue (14). Man wearing shorts and a leather coat walks up to a woman on the doorstep of a house (where Burns died), and then visits the Burns memorial (51). A hunt (in the Lake District) crossing a river on foot (72). Fell walkers returning to Grange. Car parked in Borrowdale, view towards snow-capped Skiddaw. The fell walkers return to their car with a local mountain guide, who wears and handkerchief over his head and smokes a cigarette (114). The car drives past a Brooke Bond tea van drawn by horse (122). The Scottish border (133). The Old Smithy at Gretna Green (152). The mountain guide leading a man and a woman up a scramble on Gate's Crag in Borrowdale. The party is roped, and the guide takes casual belays (232). Huntsman with hounds after a kill. One of the hunt wears a red coat and a green hat (255). The hounds jump into a van (288). The party on Gate's Crag in Borrowdale. At the top the guide applauds the woman, and points out the view. The descent (433). The hunt fording a river (479). Rl.11 part 2 [608041A] The mountain guide [see Rl.11 part 1] making coffee over a wood fire in the open; he and his clients light up cigarettes (53). Intertitles (68). Pan across ?Derwentwater. Two women in the woods (132). The mountain guide cooking fish over the fire (195) then taking the man and woman off up Borrowdale for the start of their ascent (249). A four-horse carriage, open top, with several passengers, riding by Derwentwater, and crossing one of the passes on a rough road (304). The car driving along a rough road in a wood (330). A keeper opens a toll gate for the car (357). A shepherd and his dog driving sheep along a road. Two rams at a farm (398). Rl.12 [204286A] Exterior of Annie Laurie's house, in the foreground a pony is used to mow the grass (32). Exterior of Burns' cottage (57). Brig A Doon (80). The Burns Monument from Brig A Doon (107). A three-arched stone bridge in Ayr (115). A boy and girl winding the handle of an amusement machine, `The Racer' (134). A large botanic garden (Kibble?), the inside of a greenhouse, studies of flowers (166). Clouton Mill, river (197). The ruins of Caerlave Rock Castle near Dumfries. Two men standing under castle archway (234). Flower studies (384). Waterfall near Dumfries (439). CU four boys (453). Rl.13 [204323A] Bagpipe, sporran, tartans (61). A castle near Loch Lomond. Pan across the grounds to Loch Lomond. Ben Lomond from near Luss. Tourists on the shores of Loch Lomond (147). Intertitles (233). The weaving village of Kilbarchan, members of a weaving family pose (253). Buchanan tartan, Stewart tartan (2930. Children in Kilbarchan, weaving family pose by spinning wheel. Woman at the wheel, man displays loom, the oldest man in the village. A baby (363). The Falls of Clyde at Lanark (400). The hydro-electric scheme under construction at New Lanark (420). Two women and a baby in a doorway, village street (442). Rl.14 [608009A] Houseboats and rowing boats on Loch Lomond (47). A speedboat, driven by a rear mounted airscrew, passes by (55). A family camping by Loch Lomond, washing hanging on a line, a pram by the loch side, CU baby (83). A shopping street in Stirling, a rag store, women knitting outside the store, children (110). Man walking with two officers in Stirling Castle grounds. Inspection of the guard. Sword drill (161). A protesting child in a kilt (184). Car driving through woods. The car stops for a retrospect of Stirling Castle (249). The main street of Callander, with children playing, woman pushing child in a cart (262). Two smartly dressed ladies walking by a river bridge. Highland cattle (280). A man and a woman and two children. The man plays the bagpipes, while one of the children, protesting, dances a reel (297). The Trossachs Hotel, Loch Achray, shores of Loch Katrine. Boat on loch at sunset (370). Rl.15 [204788A] Stone light beacon looking over water at sunset (65). Intertitles (94). HA panning shot of Oban harbour (138). MS herring trawler coming into harbour [name `Loch Spynie'] (155). Tourists and fishermen on quayside (162). Intertitles (169). CU various salmon-fishing flies (200). Man fishing in River Awe, with woman companion (212). Car drives past cottage at side of wood (229). Roses outside the cottage (250). Close shots of a kitten and a puppy (306). Couple fishing by River Awe (359). CS their Scotch terrier (363). Intertitles (370). Packing fish into boxes on Oban quayside (387). CS fish girl (395). Group of fish girls gutting fish in large trough (405). View from boat sailing away from town, flying naval flag (431). Intertitles (444). CS man examining book of salmon-fishing flies (464). The car driving down a mountain pass (480). Culloden battlefield (487). Close shots of two commemorative stones (500). Driver in car at Invergordon looking out over Cromarty Firth (510). Car driving into Tain (530). CS young girl with muddy face (514-21). Car passes level crossing at Loch Fleet (537). Rear view of car driving over the Mound of Fleet (547). Rl.16 [204789A] Large seated crowd watching military band play from park pavilion (?Glasgow) (33). A piper (77). Intertitles (84). Various shots of penguins from a zoo (?Glasgow) (118). Sealions (145). Intertitles (153). Steamer on the Clyde (167). View across loch/sea with white light beacon by side of road (178). Sunset over loch/sea (196). CU piper's face [same as above] (210). Waterfall at Rouken Glen (225). Boating lake at Rouken Glen (239). Men sailing model yachts on the yacht pond in Glasgow park (263). Intertitles (282). Various shots of keeper, penguin, monkey and two chimpanzees on lawn (338). Mandrill behind bars (352). Elephant with keeper (371). Llamas (381). Leopard in a cage (407). Keeper shows two toucans to camera (427). Intertitles ["Episode 24"] (440). Polar bears (487). Ape in a cage (511). Intertitles (518). Man helps small boy to launch a toy boat (529). Ships on the Clyde (555). Glasgow shipyard (558). Base on ship under construction on slipway (578). Rl.17 part 1 [204397A] Sunday morning at Petticoat Lane, London. A crowd of (mainly) men walking between the stalls. View from vehicle driving through the crowd. Slow pan over the crowd (22-71). The River Llugwy in North Wales. Swallow Falls (150). Flowers. A woman and alsatian by a flower bed. Two girls with alsatian (197). Car driving down a road lined with bungalows (?Southport). View from car driving along beach at sunset (?Southport) (273). Intertitles (310). Car on road in rain, in Wales (314). Trams in Liverpool (325). Pan across Mersey estuary from deck of RMS Adriatic (355). Pan across docks (383). Skipper of the Adriatic poses on deck (402). Two dogs and a small child (at Southport?) (448). Rl.17 part 2 [205984A] Intertitles (110). The Bridge House Resaurant, London. Traffic, pedestrians, open top bus (128). Traffic on ?London Bridge seen from moving vehicle includes open top buses, cars lorries (155). Barges on Thames, looking downstream to Tower Bridge (174). Intertitles (193). Crowds outside the Tower of London, guard in sentry box, children sitting on cannon (210). Yeoman at the gate (231). Greenwich Observatory. View over the Naval College to the Thames (273). Flower garden (333). View from top of bus approaching Tower Bridge, tram, policeman (373). Pan from Tower Bridge, taking in the Monument and the Tower of London (399). Intertitles (427). Rl.17 part 3 [608193A] Intertitles (110). Car driving into Helmsdale (120). Car on the road to John O'Groats (148). Paying an elderly toll keeper who opens toll gate (180). Arrival at John O'Groats Hotel, to be greeted by the manager (252). Tipping the elderly toll keeper (271). Lighthouse, child, car driving along road. Sand dunes at John O'Groats. Pan across shoreline (370). Intertitles (390). Rl.18 [part 1?] [610161A] Sunset over sea (17). Intertitles (24). View from Westminster Bridge over the Thames towards Hungerford Bridge (36). Pavement artists on the Embankment (43). CU work of one artist (53). Another artwork (71). People watching pavement artists at work (81). CU portrait of Rudolph Valentino (91). CU hand. Dissolve to MS policeman with raised hand holding up London traffic (113). Dissolve to open-top buses travelling along Whitehall (144). Forward-moving shot from motor car up Whitehall, past the Cenotaph (168). Intertitles (181). View of crowds at Oval cricket ground (181). LS cricket match in progress (apparently England batting in Fifth Test against Australia, August 1926] (207). CS and CU child obtaining roasted peanuts from a vendor (228). Intertitles (244). Nelson's Column (259). Forward-moving shot from motor car at Hyde Park Corner driving into the park (277). People in Hyde Park (305). Intertitles (316). Marching band of Guards watched by crowds (343). Ranks of Guards marching outside St James's Palace (362). MS presenting arms (371). Rl.18 [part 2?] [204398A] Intertitles (19). Policeman walking along the Embankment opposite the Palace of Westminster. Pedestrians on the Embankment (59). Man and woman riding in Rotten Row; they halt before the camera (77). Arch at park exit. Girl sitting by pond in the Old Dutch Garden in Kensington Gardens. Girl standing by statue of Peter Pan (131). Intertitles (387). Man standing by car, holding puppet, camera in background (409). Rl.19 [204790A] Panning shots of gardens (39). Lions at Edinburgh zoological gardens (78). Various shots of Forth railway bridge with sun setting (144). Sunset and Forth bridge seen from the car mirror (158). Intertitles (172). Panning LS of Edinburgh showing Princes Street (186). The Scott Monument (228). Car drives through gates of Edinburgh zoological gardens (234). Lions (250). Two children taking a camel ride (311). Intertitles (326). LS Gleneagles hotel (339). Panning shot of grounds (350). Group of men teeing off and putting at the eighteenth hole (374). General view of Wye Valley landscape (384). HA view of River Wye (?Symond's Yat)(410). Intertitles (417). LS Tintern Abbey (431). Two women admiring view from high position (447). Villages and countryside along the Wye Valley, inluding Ross-on-Wye (482). Waves breaking against sea wall with small ?lighthouse (492). Cardiff castle (501). Child running up steps of castle with peacocks at top (518). Closer shot of child at top of steps (526). Sunset by curving river (538). Herd of Hereford cows (552). House by river with train smoke in distance (563). Various shots of Hereford cows (600). Sunset over lake with hills in distance (610). [poor picture quality after 374ft] Note 1: Claude Friese-Greene developed his two-colour (red/blue-green) additive process from early experiments with his father William Friese-Greene (Biocolour, Colour Photography, Humfriese). In March 1924 a company formed by Claude Friese-Greene, Spectrum Films, gave a trade show of colour films at the Holborn Empire, including A QUEST OF COLOUR, a travelogue featuring scenes in Great Britain and Spain. Demonstrated in the USA in May, the process could be shown via an ordinary projector at a cost of one third of a penny over ordinary black-and-white film. In October 1925 THE OPEN ROAD series was announced, distributed by Wardour Films but with no production company credited. It was reported that 52 subjects would be supplied over the next three years. The trade show took place 29 November 1925, where 9 single reels were shown: 1) Cornwall (Land's End, Lamorna Cove and St Ives) and Devon (Plymouth and Cockington Village) 2) Devon (Torquay and Exmoor) 3) Somerset (Exmoor to Weston-Super-Mare) 4) The Wye Valley 5) Chepstow and Hereford 6) The Ludlow District 7) The Potteries (with close-ups of plates and vases) and interiors of a Sheffield steel works 8) North Wales, Liverpool and Southport 9) Blackpool by day and by night A review of the show credited Wardour as the distributors, Friese-Greene as the producer and stated that 26 reels would be on offer. No further reviews have been traced, but from the evidence of the films themselves and the cricket match shown in Reel 18 [part 1?] the series carried on into the Lake District and Scotland, then added London by August 1926. An intertitle in Reel 16 suggests that the series reached 24 episodes at least, and it seems likely that 26 were filmed, and presumably all released. All sequences mentioned in reviews feature in the surviving footage with the exception of the Sheffield steel works. Reviews also indicate that the OPEN ROAD colour was a marked improvement on that of the earlier Spectrum films. Note 2: The license number of the Friese-Greene car is NE 1699. Most of the sunsets featured were filmed using time-lapse cinematography. References: Bioscope, 3 April 1924, pp 22, 35 [Spectrum Films show at Holborn Empire] Bioscope, 8 May 1924, p 32 [New York demonstration and details of process] Bioscope, 2 October 1924, p 33 [correspondence over colour process] Bioscope, 9 October 1924, p 37 [ditto] Bioscope, 29 October 1925, pp 24-5 [trade announcement of OPEN ROAD series] Bioscope, 3 December 1925, pp 45-6 [review of first nine episodes] Bioscope, 7 January 1926, p 42 [mentioned in review of British film year] Bioscope, 29 April 1926, suppl. p iii [paper on colour cinematography delivered by Claude Friese-Greene to the Optical Convention] Film Renter, 31 November 1925 [enthusiastic report] Kinematograph Weekly, 3 April 1924, p 53 [Spectrum Films at Holborn Empire] Kinematograph Weekly, 8 May 1924, p 85 [Spectrum films to go to America] Kinematograph Weekly, 19 November 1925, suppl. p 26 [advertisement] Kinematograph Weekly, 3 December 1925, pp 41, 45 [trade show report] Sunday Express, 20 September 1925 Rachael Low, The History of the British Film 1918-1929, pp 280-1 Related material: RM 1904 [synopsis of contents of negative material]
Genre: Travelogue
Subjects: Gypsies, Fishing industry, Herring, Lake District, Brecon Beacons, Diving, Docks, Dumfries, Cinematography, Cirencester, Edinburgh, Callander, Barges, Cardiff, Cardiff Castle, Cornwall, Cricket, Blackpool, Exmoor, Dawlish, Great Britain, Greenwich, London, Harvesting, Haymaking, Funfairs, Liverpool, Loch Lomond, Locks, Ludlow, Ludlow Castle, Golf, Kensington Gardens, Glasgow, Stirling Castle, Pottery, St. Michael's Mount, Shipyards, Pavement artists, Shrews, Plymouth, Rivers, Southport, Universities, Weaving, Tintern Abbey, Wedgwood, Wells, Trossachs
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Date: 1925not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SilentRuntime: 180 mins Length: 11821 Feet
Title: Early colour film restoration at the BFI National ArchiveAuthor: GENAITAY, Sonia Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Surveys and discusses the challenges facing the BFI in the restoration of its early colour film materials held at the BFI National Archive. With case studies and with reference to Friese-Greene's The OPEN ROAD.
In: Sight and Sound v18 n1 January 2008 Page: 95
Title: Reviews: The Open RoadAuthor: STABLES, Kate Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Filmwaves n35 Spring 2008 Page: 44
Title: DVDsAuthor: BUCKELL, G.J. Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v16 n5 May 2006 Page: 8
Title: Journey through timeAuthor: BROOKE, Michael Article type: NoteLanguage: English
Description: Celebrates the restoration of Claude Friese-Greene's colour- ful silent travelogues The OPEN ROAD, to be shown in a BBC2 series The LOST WORLD OF FRIESE-GREENE in April 2006.
In: Ariel 2 Aug 2005 Pages: 8-9
Title: In the Tyre Tracks of HistoryAuthor: WHEELER, Lucy Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Lucy Wheeler describes working with a joint BBC and British Film Institute initiative travelling from Land's End to John O'Groats showing footage from Claude Friese-Greene's 1920s travel film The OPEN ROAD.
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Date: 1925 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: A car journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, filmed by Claude Friese-Greene using his own two-colour process. First nine reels in series trade shown November 1925, when a full twenty-six episodes were announced. Production and release of these continued until at least August 1926.Shotlist: Unedited colour footage of a motor tour from Land's End to John O'Groats, originally advertised as 26 episodes (first nine trade shown November 1925). The reel numbers do not correspond to the original episodes, nor are they in chronological order. The intertitles are generally not in order. Filmed by Claude Friese-Greene (and others?) using his own two-colour film process. Rl.1 [204405A] Females at an open-air swimming pool slide down a chute into the water, seaside pier in background. Their costumes bear the letters PCC (22). A toddler playing with toy boat in a rockpool (61). Sunset over trees, Devon (86). Quayside at St Ives, Cornwall, with fishing boats in the harbour (100- 106). A man and a toddler in a cobbled street (St Ives?) (120). Woman and girl in backyard, with washing on line. View down cobbled street to harbour (St Ives?) (135). Plymouth Hoe (146-153). Game of bowls in progress (161). Woman playing on a minature golf course (167). An artist painting in a cottage garden, a woman tending flowers (198). A farmyard in Cornwall (206). St Michael's Mount (216-229). Woman and child on beach, with St Michael's Mount in the background (240). HAS of beach at St Ives, showing long rows of tents (252). Views on deck of a naval launch, battleship in background (293). Children playing at the Barbican; policeman talks to them (329). Intertitles (393). Cornwall: sunset over trees, the Friese-Greene car drives past. Sunset over sea (440). Artist painting at Lamorna Cove (476)(481). Rl.2 part 1? [608040A] Various shots of children on ?Torquay beach including a group of three red-headed girls (68). Group of adults on beach, some seated on deckchairs (75). A doll and a teddy bear on deckchairs (87). CU bees visiting flowers (107). Crowds on Torquay beach (122). Various shots of children playing in the sand and sea (162). Intertitles (174). Farmer loading hay onto a cart (192). Farmer drinks from a large bottle of cider [name E. Budleigh on cart] (204). Intertitles (210). LS windmill at sunset (227). Half-moon above trees (238). Intertitles (251). Succession of close-ups with dissolves of ?Wedgwood plates (324). Rl.2 part 2? [205909A] View down wooded valley (21). Country road with hills in background (36). The car drives along the suspension bridge into Conway Castle (52). LS Conway Castle (67). Waterfall amid woods (85). Stone building by bridge (48). View down river with woods either side and hills in background (112). Panning shot of hill slopes (123). Intertitles (130). The car coming down unmade-up country lane in Devon (140). Quarry? (153). Intertitles (163). Panning shot across the sea of Torquay (186). Two women admiring flowers (204). Intertitles (237). Scenes of villages, rivercraft and trees along the River Yealm (255). The car drives into Cockington (264). Intertitles (270). Two young women in Cockington. A charabanc passes by (277). Line of cows coming down same road (291). Rear view of cows (298). One of the women taking a snapshot of the other in Cockington (310). Intertitles (316). Young women bathing off rocks in sea (322). Two women dozing on rocks (332). People walking through gardens with palm trees, including [the same?] two young women (357). Intertitles (364). View across ornamental lake at Dawlish (378). People by the lake (388). Man leading horse and cart with large load of hay down country road. The car comes up behind (401). [Described in intertitles as `the second stage'] Rl.3 part 1 [204287A] A white-coated handler with a pack of hounds on Exmoor (22). The car in the Exe Valley (53). Horse and trap at Badgeworthy. Exmoor, church at Oare (162). Intertitles (243). Huntsmen on horseback on Exmoor. Handler with pack by stream (305). The huntsmen waiting on horseback on Exmoor, then riding off (348). Girl holding an umbrella sits on a sea wall, cove in the background (Exmouth?) (369). Hens in a garden. Boy eating apple (409). Exterior of Walter Raleigh's house, elderly woman in black dress in front of the house (444). Rl.3 part 2 [204332A] Cyclist on a country road (near Balmoral?) (11). A horse-drawn reaper in action (61). Stooks (74). LS Balmoral (81). Haymaking. Boy riding a horse pulling hay. Pitchforking hay onto a stack (135). Barrels outside a distillery. A distillery employee examining a glass containing whisky (159). Burning stubble (178). The car passes a BP advertising hoarding (188). Pan across the Balmoral Estate towards the Castle (205). Sheep in a pen (222). Man shearing sheep (246). Balmoral Castle (273). Thatched cottage on Exmoor (295). Stone bridge at ?Bickleigh with children on the river bank (310). LS Dulverton (321). Car driving through Exmoor (350). The Winsford Meet: huntsmen and women gathered on horseback in village (362). Intertitles (375). Boats in harbour at Lossiemouth (389). Pan across golf links towards a lighthouse (406). Busy street scenes in Aberdeen with traffic, horse-drawn carts, trams (418). Distant view of ?Aberdeen (428). Workmen rolling barrels in the yard of a distillery (440). Rl.4 part 1 [204322A] The Roman baths at Bath, tourists at the water's edge. Keeper tickling the goldfish (88). Oxen at work on Earl Bathurst's estate near Cirencester, pulling a haycart onto which men pitch hay (107). The car passes workmen digging a hole in the road by a row of cottages in ?Somerset. Washing on a line (151). Wells Cathedral exterior (184). Gardens in Wells, a well in the Cathedral grounds (223). View from the car travelling up the Cheddar Gorge, passing tourist traffic including an open-top charabanc and a motor cycle combo. Pedestrians in the Gorge (255). The sands at Weston-super-Mare with pony traps and children on donkeys (264-287). Children's fancy dress parade (311). The oxen on Earl Bathurst's estate pulling haycart, haymaking scenes (440)(450). [Second copy 610232A stops at 161ft] Rl.4 part 2 [608042A] Shipbuilding on Clydeside: an iron plate is hoisted up the side of a ship. A riveter at work (70). Reptile house at a ?zoo: leopard snake, stump-tailed lizard fed weith grubs (148). HAS square outside Glasgow Town Hall (165). Hens at Glasgow University research department (177). Glasgow Town Hall, scenes in a park with a sunken arena and bandstand (218). Children's fancy dress parade at Weston-super-Mare (285). Horse team in field, farm workers eating sandwiches (294). A girl puts a doll on the bonnet of the Friese-Greene car (328). Rl.5 [details to be added] Rl.6 [608058A] Child in a red coat and hat (13). Reservoir at Merthyr Mawr (30). Pan across Mountain Ash, showing smoking chimneys (64). View from tram travelling down Queen Street, Cardiff, showing crowds of pedestrians, other trams (107). A student rag procession in Cardiff, girl students in Japanese costume riding on a float, girl student dressed as Nell Gwyn smiles at camera (146). Ships in dock in Cardiff. Timber props unloaded from ship. A vast yard storing timber props (182). Peacock in the grounds of Cardiff Castle (205). The rag procession: girls in golf gear and gypsy dress, young man wearing small hat (255). The grimed faces of miners. Woman with baby. HAS Mountain Ash (294). Cranes at Cardiff Docks (317). Peacock at Cardiff Castle (342). Rl.7 part 1 [608043A] The River Garry (15). Woman seated at ?Laggan Locks (31). The car passing a sign for Raglan (42). Man and woman walking towards Raglan Castle (73). A maintenance diver at Laggan Locks is winched overboard after having diving helmet fitted. He is winched up again (145). A Hereford calf (158). Views of a Hereford prize bull, `Conquest' (200). Three workmen sit drinking and eating lunch at a barrel, one peels an onion (235). A woman and a dog in the garden of a country house in the West Country (268). Hereford cattle in a field by a road with large house in background. A beer lorry passes (288). Woman walking in flower garden (339). A blind terrier (341). Intertitle (352). Rl.7 part 2 [608059A] Flower garden (65). Tests to show the `fringing' effect produced by quickly moving objects photographed by the Friese-Greene two-colour process: a man holds a doll and swings it from side to side, then performs arm exercises in front of the camera (78). A head and shoulders shot of a young woman (114). Blind terrier (149). Goldfish in a pond (169). Three women eating picnic by the roadside near Raglan (200). Scenes in the pass of Glencoe, the Three Sisters, a woman seated on a rock by the Old Road through Glencoe (243). Rl.8 [204786A] View across field, sunlight passing over trees in distance (23). Winding river by stone wall, sunlight effect again (34). View from graveyard of Loch Leven (46). Highland cattle on the shoreline and in the water at Loch Leven, Castle Island in background (76). LS Ludlow (83). Ludlow castle walls seen through trees (5). Avenue with Tudor house in background (119). Flowers at castle gate (136). Blacksmith filing a horse's hoof (152). Various shots of gardens, ornamental pond, close-ups of flowers, bees and butterflies (312). View across trees and fields with ploughing team in background (Blore Heath) (324). Three men by stone wall, one scything hay, others cutting back at hedgerow (348). Sunset over a hill (363). Intertitles (373). The car (with doll on bonnet) driving through ?Market Drayton (large building - Bennion & Co printers) (386). CS horse and cart with milk churn in same street (399). Intertitles (414). CU white and red rose (symbolising the War of the Roses) (429). Various close-ups of butterflies visiting flowers, and flowers in ornamental gardens in Shrewsbury (575). Ornamental pond with fountain (593). View through gap in trees on rainbow caused by fountain water (pink/turquoise effect) (618). View of gardens (644). Rl.9 [204787A] Kilted guards marching through Stirling castle gate (21). CU bugler (31). CU piper (38). Line of guards seen through gateway (46). HA view over battlements at town and countryside with river. Pan right to show open area by Stirling castle with military motor vehicles (57). HAS church and trees (66). HAS of the town, military camp, fields and ?former gun emplacement (74). Panning shot showing industrial city in distance with factory chimneys etc (?Stoke), winding river in middle distance in flat countryside (81). Intertitles (94). Two narrow boats on inner city canal (?Stoke), with factory buildings in distance. Two children on one narrow boat, on tow path a boater with baby and boy riding a horse (100). CU boater with grubby baby [described as skipper of the `Sarah Jane' but barge bears name `Elizabeth'] (117). CS Man, dog and two children on narrow boat `Elizabeth' (141). Intertitles (160). Man working at potter's wheel (176). Rows of women seated in large hall painting Wedgwood pottery (196). CU woman painting designs on a plate (212). Various shots of Wedgwood pottery on revolving display, including a `Portland' vase, willow pattern teapots, lustre-work, and a cameo of the Prince of Wales (363). Car stops at BP petrol pumps (doll still on bonnet) and attendant pours in petrol (400). Car drives down road (441). More Wedgwood pottery on revolving display (456). Intertitles (476). A pink rainbow curving over a clump of trees [shaky picture] (498). Rl.10 part 1 [608044A] The car driving over Ashness Bridge with Derwent Water and Skiddaw in the background (20). Sunset on Ullswater (42). A car driving onto the Ballachulish ferry; the ferry crosses the straits of Loch Leven (119). Autumn tints in the woods, cows at Coniston Water. Scenes by Coniston Water (252). Car on road by loch side (266). A gypsy encampment with caravans and tents, children running about, child washing clothes in a tub (302). Ben Nevis from across Loch Eil. Fort William from across Loch Linnhe, Ben Nevis in background (349). The Glenfinnan Monument, boat on Loch Shiel (358). A flight of locks at ?Laggan (370). Rl.10 part 2 [204390A] "Episode 11". Scenes on the road between Southport and Blackpool. The car outside the shop of `Don, the Lightning Portrait Artist' (40). Blackpool Pleasure Beach, promenade, casino. The illuminations (73). Four children with a cat, one eating a jam sandwich, girl feeding dog (126). Intertitles (234). Washing on a hedge. Boy and girl playing in a rocking cradle with a pup (271). Man performing a headstand (279). Sunset at Blackpool, by pier (308). Blackpool Pleasure Beach by day, showing exterior of Noah's Ark. Holidaymakers get into a car for a Big Dipper ride. The car in motion on the Big dipper (390). Amusement stall with dolls as prizes (404). Woman holding doll (426). Outside `Don, the Lightning Portrait Artist' again. Car driver gives dolls to girl to put on the running board (474). Intertitles (504). Toddler, facial expressions (555). Intertitles (582). Rl.11 part 1 [204321A] The market square at Dumfries, pedestrians by a statue (14). Man wearing shorts and a leather coat walks up to a woman on the doorstep of a house (where Burns died), and then visits the Burns memorial (51). A hunt (in the Lake District) crossing a river on foot (72). Fell walkers returning to Grange. Car parked in Borrowdale, view towards snow-capped Skiddaw. The fell walkers return to their car with a local mountain guide, who wears and handkerchief over his head and smokes a cigarette (114). The car drives past a Brooke Bond tea van drawn by horse (122). The Scottish border (133). The Old Smithy at Gretna Green (152). The mountain guide leading a man and a woman up a scramble on Gate's Crag in Borrowdale. The party is roped, and the guide takes casual belays (232). Huntsman with hounds after a kill. One of the hunt wears a red coat and a green hat (255). The hounds jump into a van (288). The party on Gate's Crag in Borrowdale. At the top the guide applauds the woman, and points out the view. The descent (433). The hunt fording a river (479). Rl.11 part 2 [608041A] The mountain guide [see Rl.11 part 1] making coffee over a wood fire in the open; he and his clients light up cigarettes (53). Intertitles (68). Pan across ?Derwentwater. Two women in the woods (132). The mountain guide cooking fish over the fire (195) then taking the man and woman off up Borrowdale for the start of their ascent (249). A four-horse carriage, open top, with several passengers, riding by Derwentwater, and crossing one of the passes on a rough road (304). The car driving along a rough road in a wood (330). A keeper opens a toll gate for the car (357). A shepherd and his dog driving sheep along a road. Two rams at a farm (398). Rl.12 [204286A] Exterior of Annie Laurie's house, in the foreground a pony is used to mow the grass (32). Exterior of Burns' cottage (57). Brig A Doon (80). The Burns Monument from Brig A Doon (107). A three-arched stone bridge in Ayr (115). A boy and girl winding the handle of an amusement machine, `The Racer' (134). A large botanic garden (Kibble?), the inside of a greenhouse, studies of flowers (166). Clouton Mill, river (197). The ruins of Caerlave Rock Castle near Dumfries. Two men standing under castle archway (234). Flower studies (384). Waterfall near Dumfries (439). CU four boys (453). Rl.13 [204323A] Bagpipe, sporran, tartans (61). A castle near Loch Lomond. Pan across the grounds to Loch Lomond. Ben Lomond from near Luss. Tourists on the shores of Loch Lomond (147). Intertitles (233). The weaving village of Kilbarchan, members of a weaving family pose (253). Buchanan tartan, Stewart tartan (2930. Children in Kilbarchan, weaving family pose by spinning wheel. Woman at the wheel, man displays loom, the oldest man in the village. A baby (363). The Falls of Clyde at Lanark (400). The hydro-electric scheme under construction at New Lanark (420). Two women and a baby in a doorway, village street (442). Rl.14 [608009A] Houseboats and rowing boats on Loch Lomond (47). A speedboat, driven by a rear mounted airscrew, passes by (55). A family camping by Loch Lomond, washing hanging on a line, a pram by the loch side, CU baby (83). A shopping street in Stirling, a rag store, women knitting outside the store, children (110). Man walking with two officers in Stirling Castle grounds. Inspection of the guard. Sword drill (161). A protesting child in a kilt (184). Car driving through woods. The car stops for a retrospect of Stirling Castle (249). The main street of Callander, with children playing, woman pushing child in a cart (262). Two smartly dressed ladies walking by a river bridge. Highland cattle (280). A man and a woman and two children. The man plays the bagpipes, while one of the children, protesting, dances a reel (297). The Trossachs Hotel, Loch Achray, shores of Loch Katrine. Boat on loch at sunset (370). Rl.15 [204788A] Stone light beacon looking over water at sunset (65). Intertitles (94). HA panning shot of Oban harbour (138). MS herring trawler coming into harbour [name `Loch Spynie'] (155). Tourists and fishermen on quayside (162). Intertitles (169). CU various salmon-fishing flies (200). Man fishing in River Awe, with woman companion (212). Car drives past cottage at side of wood (229). Roses outside the cottage (250). Close shots of a kitten and a puppy (306). Couple fishing by River Awe (359). CS their Scotch terrier (363). Intertitles (370). Packing fish into boxes on Oban quayside (387). CS fish girl (395). Group of fish girls gutting fish in large trough (405). View from boat sailing away from town, flying naval flag (431). Intertitles (444). CS man examining book of salmon-fishing flies (464). The car driving down a mountain pass (480). Culloden battlefield (487). Close shots of two commemorative stones (500). Driver in car at Invergordon looking out over Cromarty Firth (510). Car driving into Tain (530). CS young girl with muddy face (514-21). Car passes level crossing at Loch Fleet (537). Rear view of car driving over the Mound of Fleet (547). Rl.16 [204789A] Large seated crowd watching military band play from park pavilion (?Glasgow) (33). A piper (77). Intertitles (84). Various shots of penguins from a zoo (?Glasgow) (118). Sealions (145). Intertitles (153). Steamer on the Clyde (167). View across loch/sea with white light beacon by side of road (178). Sunset over loch/sea (196). CU piper's face [same as above] (210). Waterfall at Rouken Glen (225). Boating lake at Rouken Glen (239). Men sailing model yachts on the yacht pond in Glasgow park (263). Intertitles (282). Various shots of keeper, penguin, monkey and two chimpanzees on lawn (338). Mandrill behind bars (352). Elephant with keeper (371). Llamas (381). Leopard in a cage (407). Keeper shows two toucans to camera (427). Intertitles ["Episode 24"] (440). Polar bears (487). Ape in a cage (511). Intertitles (518). Man helps small boy to launch a toy boat (529). Ships on the Clyde (555). Glasgow shipyard (558). Base on ship under construction on slipway (578). Rl.17 part 1 [204397A] Sunday morning at Petticoat Lane, London. A crowd of (mainly) men walking between the stalls. View from vehicle driving through the crowd. Slow pan over the crowd (22-71). The River Llugwy in North Wales. Swallow Falls (150). Flowers. A woman and alsatian by a flower bed. Two girls with alsatian (197). Car driving down a road lined with bungalows (?Southport). View from car driving along beach at sunset (?Southport) (273). Intertitles (310). Car on road in rain, in Wales (314). Trams in Liverpool (325). Pan across Mersey estuary from deck of RMS Adriatic (355). Pan across docks (383). Skipper of the Adriatic poses on deck (402). Two dogs and a small child (at Southport?) (448). Rl.17 part 2 [205984A] Intertitles (110). The Bridge House Resaurant, London. Traffic, pedestrians, open top bus (128). Traffic on ?London Bridge seen from moving vehicle includes open top buses, cars lorries (155). Barges on Thames, looking downstream to Tower Bridge (174). Intertitles (193). Crowds outside the Tower of London, guard in sentry box, children sitting on cannon (210). Yeoman at the gate (231). Greenwich Observatory. View over the Naval College to the Thames (273). Flower garden (333). View from top of bus approaching Tower Bridge, tram, policeman (373). Pan from Tower Bridge, taking in the Monument and the Tower of London (399). Intertitles (427). Rl.17 part 3 [608193A] Intertitles (110). Car driving into Helmsdale (120). Car on the road to John O'Groats (148). Paying an elderly toll keeper who opens toll gate (180). Arrival at John O'Groats Hotel, to be greeted by the manager (252). Tipping the elderly toll keeper (271). Lighthouse, child, car driving along road. Sand dunes at John O'Groats. Pan across shoreline (370). Intertitles (390). Rl.18 [part 1?] [610161A] Sunset over sea (17). Intertitles (24). View from Westminster Bridge over the Thames towards Hungerford Bridge (36). Pavement artists on the Embankment (43). CU work of one artist (53). Another artwork (71). People watching pavement artists at work (81). CU portrait of Rudolph Valentino (91). CU hand. Dissolve to MS policeman with raised hand holding up London traffic (113). Dissolve to open-top buses travelling along Whitehall (144). Forward-moving shot from motor car up Whitehall, past the Cenotaph (168). Intertitles (181). View of crowds at Oval cricket ground (181). LS cricket match in progress (apparently England batting in Fifth Test against Australia, August 1926] (207). CS and CU child obtaining roasted peanuts from a vendor (228). Intertitles (244). Nelson's Column (259). Forward-moving shot from motor car at Hyde Park Corner driving into the park (277). People in Hyde Park (305). Intertitles (316). Marching band of Guards watched by crowds (343). Ranks of Guards marching outside St James's Palace (362). MS presenting arms (371). Rl.18 [part 2?] [204398A] Intertitles (19). Policeman walking along the Embankment opposite the Palace of Westminster. Pedestrians on the Embankment (59). Man and woman riding in Rotten Row; they halt before the camera (77). Arch at park exit. Girl sitting by pond in the Old Dutch Garden in Kensington Gardens. Girl standing by statue of Peter Pan (131). Intertitles (387). Man standing by car, holding puppet, camera in background (409). Rl.19 [204790A] Panning shots of gardens (39). Lions at Edinburgh zoological gardens (78). Various shots of Forth railway bridge with sun setting (144). Sunset and Forth bridge seen from the car mirror (158). Intertitles (172). Panning LS of Edinburgh showing Princes Street (186). The Scott Monument (228). Car drives through gates of Edinburgh zoological gardens (234). Lions (250). Two children taking a camel ride (311). Intertitles (326). LS Gleneagles hotel (339). Panning shot of grounds (350). Group of men teeing off and putting at the eighteenth hole (374). General view of Wye Valley landscape (384). HA view of River Wye (?Symond's Yat)(410). Intertitles (417). LS Tintern Abbey (431). Two women admiring view from high position (447). Villages and countryside along the Wye Valley, inluding Ross-on-Wye (482). Waves breaking against sea wall with small ?lighthouse (492). Cardiff castle (501). Child running up steps of castle with peacocks at top (518). Closer shot of child at top of steps (526). Sunset by curving river (538). Herd of Hereford cows (552). House by river with train smoke in distance (563). Various shots of Hereford cows (600). Sunset over lake with hills in distance (610). [poor picture quality after 374ft] Note 1: Claude Friese-Greene developed his two-colour (red/blue-green) additive process from early experiments with his father William Friese-Greene (Biocolour, Colour Photography, Humfriese). In March 1924 a company formed by Claude Friese-Greene, Spectrum Films, gave a trade show of colour films at the Holborn Empire, including A QUEST OF COLOUR, a travelogue featuring scenes in Great Britain and Spain. Demonstrated in the USA in May, the process could be shown via an ordinary projector at a cost of one third of a penny over ordinary black-and-white film. In October 1925 THE OPEN ROAD series was announced, distributed by Wardour Films but with no production company credited. It was reported that 52 subjects would be supplied over the next three years. The trade show took place 29 November 1925, where 9 single reels were shown: 1) Cornwall (Land's End, Lamorna Cove and St Ives) and Devon (Plymouth and Cockington Village) 2) Devon (Torquay and Exmoor) 3) Somerset (Exmoor to Weston-Super-Mare) 4) The Wye Valley 5) Chepstow and Hereford 6) The Ludlow District 7) The Potteries (with close-ups of plates and vases) and interiors of a Sheffield steel works 8) North Wales, Liverpool and Southport 9) Blackpool by day and by night A review of the show credited Wardour as the distributors, Friese-Greene as the producer and stated that 26 reels would be on offer. No further reviews have been traced, but from the evidence of the films themselves and the cricket match shown in Reel 18 [part 1?] the series carried on into the Lake District and Scotland, then added London by August 1926. An intertitle in Reel 16 suggests that the series reached 24 episodes at least, and it seems likely that 26 were filmed, and presumably all released. All sequences mentioned in reviews feature in the surviving footage with the exception of the Sheffield steel works. Reviews also indicate that the OPEN ROAD colour was a marked improvement on that of the earlier Spectrum films. Note 2: The license number of the Friese-Greene car is NE 1699. Most of the sunsets featured were filmed using time-lapse cinematography. References: Bioscope, 3 April 1924, pp 22, 35 [Spectrum Films show at Holborn Empire] Bioscope, 8 May 1924, p 32 [New York demonstration and details of process] Bioscope, 2 October 1924, p 33 [correspondence over colour process] Bioscope, 9 October 1924, p 37 [ditto] Bioscope, 29 October 1925, pp 24-5 [trade announcement of OPEN ROAD series] Bioscope, 3 December 1925, pp 45-6 [review of first nine episodes] Bioscope, 7 January 1926, p 42 [mentioned in review of British film year] Bioscope, 29 April 1926, suppl. p iii [paper on colour cinematography delivered by Claude Friese-Greene to the Optical Convention] Film Renter, 31 November 1925 [enthusiastic report] Kinematograph Weekly, 3 April 1924, p 53 [Spectrum Films at Holborn Empire] Kinematograph Weekly, 8 May 1924, p 85 [Spectrum films to go to America] Kinematograph Weekly, 19 November 1925, suppl. p 26 [advertisement] Kinematograph Weekly, 3 December 1925, pp 41, 45 [trade show report] Sunday Express, 20 September 1925 Rachael Low, The History of the British Film 1918-1929, pp 280-1 Related material: RM 1904 [synopsis of contents of negative material]
Genre: Travelogue
Subjects: Gypsies, Fishing industry, Herring, Lake District, Brecon Beacons, Diving, Docks, Dumfries, Cinematography, Cirencester, Edinburgh, Callander, Barges, Cardiff, Cardiff Castle, Cornwall, Cricket, Blackpool, Exmoor, Dawlish, Great Britain, Greenwich, London, Harvesting, Haymaking, Funfairs, Liverpool, Loch Lomond, Locks, Ludlow, Ludlow Castle, Golf, Kensington Gardens, Glasgow, Stirling Castle, Pottery, St. Michael's Mount, Shipyards, Pavement artists, Shrews, Plymouth, Rivers, Southport, Universities, Weaving, Tintern Abbey, Wedgwood, Wells, Trossachs
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Date: 1925not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SilentRuntime: 180 mins Length: 11821 Feet
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Producer: Claude Friese-Greene, Director of Photography: Claude Friese-Greene
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In: Journal of British Cinema and Television v7 n1 2010 Pages: 131-146Title: Early colour film restoration at the BFI National ArchiveAuthor: GENAITAY, Sonia Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Surveys and discusses the challenges facing the BFI in the restoration of its early colour film materials held at the BFI National Archive. With case studies and with reference to Friese-Greene's The OPEN ROAD.
In: Sight and Sound v18 n1 January 2008 Page: 95
Title: Reviews: The Open RoadAuthor: STABLES, Kate Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Filmwaves n35 Spring 2008 Page: 44
Title: DVDsAuthor: BUCKELL, G.J. Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v16 n5 May 2006 Page: 8
Title: Journey through timeAuthor: BROOKE, Michael Article type: NoteLanguage: English
Description: Celebrates the restoration of Claude Friese-Greene's colour- ful silent travelogues The OPEN ROAD, to be shown in a BBC2 series The LOST WORLD OF FRIESE-GREENE in April 2006.
In: Ariel 2 Aug 2005 Pages: 8-9
Title: In the Tyre Tracks of HistoryAuthor: WHEELER, Lucy Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Lucy Wheeler describes working with a joint BBC and British Film Institute initiative travelling from Land's End to John O'Groats showing footage from Claude Friese-Greene's 1920s travel film The OPEN ROAD.
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