The Open Road, A motor car trip from Cornwall via Wales and Scotland to London in 1926 (in colour!)
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 Published On Nov 25, 2018

This is one of the earliest artifically coloured films (1926). It was produced by Claude Friese Green, who can be seen at the end of this film with his puppy dog. He travels from Lands End in the far South-West to John 'O Groats in Scotland in the far North and then back to London.
This is one of the first colorized films ever to be made. It was colorized by means of three separate filtering processes for the colors Red, Green and Blue. The results are truly amazing.
The route goes from Lands End via St.Michaels Mount, Plymouth, Torquay, Dawlish, Wells, Bath, Chepstow, Cardiff, Wales, Blackpool, Windermere, Lake District, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, Stirling, to John 'O Groats and back to London.

The original video has been motion-stabilized, enhanced, contrast and brightness corrected, upscaled to full HD (1080p) and sharpened, using special software.
Most of the explanatory texts have been removed for reasons of continuous enjoyment of these interesting historic images.

Time line:
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Leaving Lands End
00:38 Lamorna Cove
00:54 Shingle Cliff and Moor
00:59 St.Michaels Mount
01:14 Regent Street in St.Ives
01:34 The Barbican, departure point for the Mayflower
01:41 Plymouth Hoe
01:48 Modern Drakes playing golf
02:10 The mighty Royal Navy
02:29 Cockington
03:03 Torquay beach
03:55 Dawlish Ornamental garden
04:10 Exmouth
04:28 Sir Walter Ryleigh's birth house
05:19 Devon apples
05:39 Foxhunt
06:01 Exy valley
06:24 Devonshire lanes
06:36 Road works, "the opened road"
06:56 Wells cathedral
07:07 Cheddar Gorge (?)
07:18 Weston Supermare
07:42 Bath
08:13 Earl Bathurst's Estate near Cirencester
09:05 Ross On Wye
09:35 Chepstow (music removed for copyright reasons)
10:43 Cardiff castle
11:53 Glamorgan Canal
12:24 Herefordshire
13:26 Location?
13:51 Blore Hill, battle during the War of the Roses
14:06 Trent Valley
14:15 The "Sarah Jane" on a canal
14:25 Wedgewood pottery
15:32 An early petrol station
15:48 Conway Castle, built by Norman Kings
16:09 Hollyhead Road, Swallow Falls
16:17 Continuing through Wales
16:27 The Mersey river, viewed from the RMS Adriatic
16:50 Sunset over the Irish Sea
17:09 Lancashire
17:55 Blackpool Pier
18:17 Blackpool Pleasure Beach
19:18 The 'Shalwyn', win a doll
19:30 Heading for Windermere
19:39 Hiking in the Lake District
21:44 Dumfries Market square
21:52 Falls of Clyde at Lanark
22:04 Electricity plant
22:20 Kilbarchan, near Paisley
22:40 Weavers in Kilbarchan
23:06 Industry on The Clyde, heading for Glasgow
23:56 Glasgow
24:55 Castle on the banks of Loch Lomond
25:30 House boats on Loch Lomond
25:50 Stirling street scenes
25:58 Stirling Castle
26:42 On the way to Callander
27:28 Oban
28:30 Fishing activities
28:59 At Eventide
29:10 Glencoe
29:23 Ferry at Ballachulish
30:10 Ben Nevis, Fort William and the Caledonian Canal
30:30 River Garry, Salmon fishing
31:10 Helmsdale, picturesq village
31:22 Who Pays the Castle's Guardsman?
31:32 Half-a-crown to enter
32:22 View on John 'O Groats dunes
32:48 John 'O Groats lighthouse
33:00 Lossiemouth
33:10 Union street in Aberdeen
33:18 Whiskey brewery
34:16 Balmoral Castle, country house for the King / Queen
34:38 Forth Bridge
34:51 Edinbourgh
35:11 Edinbourgh Zoo
36:35 Back to London, Tower Bridge
36:51 Father Thames
37:04 The Tower of London
37:16 Beefeater Guard of the Tower
37:30 Greenwich Observatory and Null meridian
37:37 Red ball tells when it is 1 'O Clock to the ships
37:42 Crossing London Bridge
37:59 Barges on the river Thames and Tower Bridge
38:28 White Hall near the Cenotaph
38:34 The Cenotaph memorial for WW-I
39:07 Trafalgar Square and Admiral Nelson's column
39:12 Hyde Park Corner
39:32 Marble Arch, corner of Oxford Street & Edgware Road
39:45 The old Dutch Gardens in Kensington Gardens
40:02 Famous statue of Peter Pan
40:10 Pettycoat Lane (market)
40:36 The Oval, Cricket Test match between England and Australia
41:11 Changing of the Guards at St.James's Palace
41:55 Rotten Row in Hyde Park
42:00 View from Westminster Bridge on the Thames and boats to Greenwich
42:09 Bobby on the Thames Embankment and Houses of Parliament
42:27 Houses of Parliament
42:33 The maker of this film, Claude Friese Green, with his puppy dog.
43:00 The End.

Please note that some music was removed for Copyright reasons.

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