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    The Open Road

    The Open Road

    1926

    1:04:36

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    The Open Road

    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Claude Friese-Greene

    Writers

    N/A

    Stars

    Norman Swan,