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series produced in conjunction with the
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lot ...
. Three one-hour episodes were broadcast on
BBC Two in spring 2006.
The series, presented by
Dan Cruickshank
Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank (born 26 August 1949) is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture.
Professional career
Cruickshank holds a BA in Art, Design and Architecture ...
, retraces a road trip that
Claude Friese-Greene
Claude Friese-Greene (3 May 1898 – 6 January 1943) was a British-born cinema technician, filmmaker and cinematographer, most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled ''The Open Road''.
Biography
Claude, born Claude Harrison Green ...
took between 1924 and 1926 from
Land's End to John o' Groats
Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance by road is and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days; the record ...
. It also showcases ''The Open Road'', a 26-reel film made by Friese-Greene along the way. ''The Open Road'' was filmed using the Biocolour process originally invented by his father
William Friese-Greene
William Friese-Greene (born William Edward Green, 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921) was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras in 1 ...
, the moving picture pioneer, later developed further by Claude after his father's death.
''The Open Road'' was donated to the
BFI National Archive
The BFI National Archive is a department of the British Film Institute, and one of the largest film archives in the world. It was founded as the National Film Library in 1935; its first curator was Ernest Lindgren. In 1955, its name became the N ...
by Friese-Greene's son in the 1950s and the job of restoration and explanation took several decades. The
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lot ...
used computer processing of the images to minimise the red and green fringes around rapidly moving objects.
According to Dan Cruickshank, the purpose of recreating Friese-Greene's journey was "to see what has changed in Britain in the last 80 years and, perhaps more intriguingly, to see what remains the same. There's also a bit of a detective story, a quest for knowledge, because very little is known about the archive and about the people that appear in it."
This is one of a number of BFI television series featuring footage from the BFI National Archive and produced in partnership with the BBC:
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The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon''
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The Lost World of Tibet
''The Lost World of Tibet'' is a BBC documentary film produced in conjunction with the British Film Institute. The 90-minute film was broadcast on BBC Two in November 2006.
The film is presented by Dan Cruickshank and features footage shot in ...
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In 2013, a clip from the series went viral after it was set to the music from Amelie and British band Jonquil. The clip, dubbed "London in 1927" was posted by several news sites and retweeted by
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles before gaining a leading man status in film and television. Spacey has received various accolade ...
.
See also
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List of early color feature films
This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio f ...
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