In the mid-1920's pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene made a series of films during an intrepid drive from Lands End to John O'Groats in the early days of the motor car. Claude's remarkable films were shot in pioneering early colour using a process he'd invented himself at a time when the world was filmed in black and white. In this three part series presenter Dan Cruickshank traces the original route in a vintage car tracking relatives of people who appeared in the films. D
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. In 1924 pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene embarked on an intrepid road trip from Land s End to John O'Groats. He recorded his journey on film, using an experimental colour process; the result was a remarkable travelogue called The Open Road. Reviewers hailed the film as an amazing success at which audiences would 'gasp with wonder', for, at a time when cinemagoers saw their world only in black and white. Claude's remarkable films were shot in colour. Eighty years after Claude's original trip, the BBC and the British Film Institute have recreated the journey, and in this three-part series Dan Cruickshank retraces Claude's route through the heart of Britain. Drawing fully on Claude's original footage, which has been meticulously restored by the BFI, this wonderful series affords contemporary audiences a vibrant glimpse at life in the 1920s, and a chance to examine not only how much has changed, but also all that has remained the same since that time. On our route through scenic West Country into Wales, up the West coast to Scotland and on to John O'Groats, we hear from a cast of characters - not only relatives and friends of those who appear in Claude's footage, but those who featured in the films as children, and who describe the moving experience of encountering themselves within this beautiful footage.
Historian Dan Cruickshank presents this exploration of documentary filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene, who recorded a picture of Britain from John O'Groats to Land's End using a pioneering colour film stock in 1924. Cruickshank recreates the trip, and comments on Friese-Greene's rare archive footage, examining the patterns of everyday life in 1920s Britain and interviewing peope who appeared in the film as children.
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