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397: 138:, and then improved by Claude as the "new all-British Friese-Green natural colour process". The process renders colour by passing the light through a pair of red or blue-green filters, and then onto standard black-and-white film, alternating the filters every frame. When played back, the same alternating coloured filters are used to project in colour. 191:, who have the original negatives on file. The footage in the archive was compiled into a 65-minute film from the original 26 parts, and was made available to watch within the UK online free of charge. A new film score (to the originally silent film) was produced by composer and pianist 319: 184:
Though it had some interest when previewed in 1925, it did not attain great success due to problems inherent to the colour processing, which produced colour fringing and flicker.
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The film, in part, was designed to market the additive two-colour film process originally developed by
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has called it the "first comprehensive colour tourism film" of Britain.
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and violinist Günther Buchwald to accompany the DVD release.
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This article related to a British film of the 1920s is a
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The original film was digitally restored in 2005 by the
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Claude Friese-Greene
intertitles
travel documentary
Land's End
John O'Groats
United Kingdom
The Guardian
Claude Friese-Greene
William
Land's End
Cornwall
St Michael's Mount
St Ives
Torquay
Glasgow
Stirling
Oban
Edinburgh
London
BFI
Neil Brand
Claude Friese-Greene
"The Open Road (1926)"
British Film Institute
"When Britain was a rose-tinted spectacle"
"Collections Search"
British Film Institute


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