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  1. Open Road, The (2007)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £11.99

    In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, recorded life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. This travelogue was conceived as a series of 26 shorts to...

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  2. Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film Studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

    In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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  3. East of Piccadilly (1940 Film)

    aka: Strangler, The

    Director
    Harold Huth
    Producer
    Walter C. Mycroft

    Feature film set in London’s Soho. A crime reporter and writer of thrillers captures a silk stocking murderer. George Hayes provides a cameo of an insane actor who keeps effigies of theatre critics...

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  4. Elstree Calling (1930 Film)

    aka: Hello Everybody

    Director
    Adrian Brunel
    Producer
    Walter C. Mycroft

    Feature film variety revue. A collection of party pieces by a host of British variety stars (Will Fyffe, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert, Tommy Handley). Throughout there is a running gag with Donald...

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