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

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.