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The Open Road(Movie, 1926)

1h 4min | Genre: Documentary
The Open RoadRating: 3.3/5 (with 55 votes)
The Open Road is a 1926 British travel documentary film series narrating a journey by motorcar from Land's End to John O'Groats to explore life on 'the open road' across the United Kingdom. The Guardian has called it the "first comprehensive colour tourism film" of Britain. The film in part was designed to market the additive two-colour film process originally developed by Claude Friese-Greene's father William, and then improved by Claude as the "new all British Friese-Green natural colour process". The process renders colour by passing the light through a pair of red or blue-green filters, and then onto standard black-and-white film, alternating the filters every frame. When played back, the same alternating coloured filters are used to project in colour. It features various famous British locations: Land's End, Cornwall, St Michael's Mount, St Ives, Torquay, Glasgow, Stirling, Oban, Edinburgh and London. It was filmed between 1924 and 1926. Though it had some interest when previewed in 1925, it did not attain great success due to problems inherent to the colour processing, which produced colour fringing and flicker. The original film was digitally restored in 2005 by the BFI, wh... ()
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About The Open Road

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. 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: England
Original language: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/01/1926

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Other movies with this title: The Open Road (FR, 1935), The Open Road (US, 2009)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:76777, Added: 03/16/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024