The Open Road

In the summer of 1924 Claude FrieseGreene a pioneer of colour cinematography set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Lands End and John OGroats 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 interwar Britain in which town and country people and landscapes are captured as never before in a truly unique and rich colour palette