The Open Road

Directed by Claude Friese-Greene

As seen in the recent BBC programmes, this series of films uses a rare, early colour process partly developed by the filmmaker’s father William Friese-Greene to document a car journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats, offering an extraordinary vision of Britain in the 1920s – in living colour.

The screening will be introduced by the BFI’s Jan Faull and accompanied by pianist Neil Brand (Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns cohort) and German violinist Günter Buchwald.

Tickets: £6.50 full / £5 concs

Duration:
85 minutes

Country of origin:
Great Britain

Year of production:
1924