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.

[@Rick88888888]

*I intend to re-do this film next year (2021 by A.I. upscaling and enhancing it as well as re-colorizing it with the latest version of the DeOldify software as soon as it becomes available.* We can restore old and new(er) filmfootage for you, like family, wedding & party videos etc. Contact: [e-mail] *Don't forget to press the CC captions button to read all the locations* ! *I have many more nice, A.I. enhanced films about London during and before World War-II (and even from the 1900s) in colour* : kzbin.info/aero/PLP_6hUsQRi8sOgzj80XqJ5nUUTxL_KDWb PS: some of the music had to be cut away for copyright reasons.

[@benjaminqilafku5714]

Great educational footage of the by gone times as useful tools for younger generations getting to know how different life was in the past. Thank you for the laborious work and keep up the excellence.

[@a3103-j7g]

"Two Minute Papers" mentions a new type of colorizing superior to DeOldify. Might be worth checking out.

[@Rick88888888]

@@a3103-j7g If you mean this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5fEhYKOraZrmq8 then that is old news. This is nearly 5 year old info. By now they still have not released anything practically usuable nor commercially available. It seems to still be 'just' a university study. Pity because it showed great promise!

[@a3103-j7g]

@@Rick88888888 it is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJuUf2erepaYns0 It seems they segmentize the image before colorization.

[@Rick88888888]

@@a3103-j7g I wrote this a moment ago on this KZbin page: "This is all very nice, but this kind of publications have been appearing on KZbin for the last 5 years, and still there is no commercial product on the market. That's what you get with these university "et al" chaps: no intention to release a practically usable project, just an academic 'kindergarten' (although very impressive). By all means make haste with a good, easily installable Windows setup version in stead of unfairly bashing DeOldify which is still by far the best colorization software around! Look at my channel and you know why I write this. Jason Antic of DeOldify is a one-man band. Very unfair to criticize his work by university students with huge budgets, time and resources."

[@sedekiman]

One thing that has changed-the way children are brought-up. We were to respect adults, speak when spoken to, please and thank and sit in a restaurant until adults were finished. Eating -out was a treat.

[@clairecadoux471]

It is so glaringly noticeable isn't it? We have so many now who have 1. No ability to take responsibility for their own actions 2. Feel they are entitled to SO much especially when young. 3. Have no sense of humility or much gratitude. 4. Treat this planet like a waste bin. I will stop there as I absolutely MUST go shopping. Lucky me.

[@devonseamoor]

@@clairecadoux471 Yes, it's true that in Britain, nowadays, there are restaurants, especially large ones near stations, like in Exeter, where families of social housing neighbourhoods allow their children to run around, climb chairs and tables, screaming also, while the parents laugh at them, and say "Aren't they good with the other children?"proud of their offspring. I've been in such a scenery, and I noticed how most people around me sat with hunched shoulders, looking annoyed, but fearful. The parents were also loudmouthed, about 30 of age or so. They were the kind of people who start bullying you as soon as you say something about the behaviour of their children. I've witnessed that too, when someone started to complain. Also the number of very young kids, like at 13, walking the streets on Saturday nights, drunk, and banging on doors, shouting in a group, destroying things on their way. Every week there were reports in the papers, also of teenagers' deaths. As a Dutchy, I was at times appalled by the absence of parental reigns in Britain.

[@darrenreynolds598]

Really enjoyed this film. Even though I'm in my forties, I was left feeling nostalgic for a simpler time.

[@doggo9421]

Me being 15 and still feeling nostalgic for some reason.

[@argentum3919]

Don't mate. These were hard times. No NHS, no anesthetic, rotten teeth, 7 days of working to survive, children up chimneys, cold water no bathrooms, toilets outside. There is nothing to envy here. Politicians regularly sent the country to war and expected you to die for them (else you got a feather through the post) so that they could live in opulent luxury with their stupid top hats.

[@leejohnson3209]

@@argentum3919 I agree. I'd add that people pushed hard for what we've got now, through democratic means and protest. But things are still far from being as good as they should. There is still homelessness, poverty and hunger. What worries me is that it seems at the moment that the fight is to just halt the slide backwards rather than to push for progress. Because what we have now is an establishment that is cunning and powerful enough to be able to convince the public to quite willingly vote for things that hurt them.

[@tombarron8741]

@@leejohnson3209 the establishment has nothing on the willing glutites consuming this 'in the good old days' nonsense. We are our own worst enemy.

[@argentum3919]

@@leejohnson3209 At that time it was all about having and keeping a job putting you at the mercy of your boss so people reacted to this with unions. Now banks have the nation by the balls. High property prices since the late 80s have enslaved people to high mortgages and stupid rents. The only winners are the bank bosses and unmortgaged property owners.

[@AlexanderJScheu]

Thank you so much for this Documentation, Merry old England, Good Old Days.. those times of GB !! Greetings from Germany,

[@iainsan]

What comes across most strongly to me is how free children were back then. They could play outside and get into all kinds of scrapes without constant adult supervision. As I was born in 1958, I enjoyed much the same kind of childhood as these 20s children and I am so grateful that I was able to enjoy the fun that it brought. For the past 30 years, children haven't been able to venture outside their homes without adults breathing down their necks all the time. Such a pity.

[@rossmorebaz]

How delightful to see England at this glorious time

[@jackwatson3944]

Most of the old streets are exactly the same.

[@jubalixzxcain3030]

in about 1977 as a young child I ran free through the golden cornish fields on a golden summer and played in a Haystack of Haybales with my brother sister and Dad. Once of the most magical days ever.

[@devonseamoor]

Beautiful memory, I understand completely! I've got memories of playing in the haystack on farms of members of church, where my father was minister. There were kittens, and we drank the milk that cows give just after their calf is born. A thick, creamy milk, delicious! I remember it well, also the fields with flax, and the smell of those bundles in a row after harvest, during our Sunday afternoon walks with our family of 11. I was the one staying behind, finding out about things, walking off a bit, at times. Once, at the age of 4 or so, I was lost for a day, following a cat. A kind car-driver brought me home😮😍

[@kenmannagh7788]

What has happened to the present World we live in now ? It wasn't perfect back then but it was for many a better World. Today's World is soiled and has lost its shine and dignity sadly. Beautiful film , thankyou .

[@davesaunders3334]

It’s you who has lost their shine and dignity. Stop viewing the world through rose-coloured glasses.

[@fedupwelsh7211]

Are you young? I may be wrong but I think you must be an older gentleman....yearning for the safe, wholesome world of your youth maybe?

[@ossian11]

Brilliant time capsule. Excellent colour that brings it to life.

[@He1sbelles]

My mum was born in 1926 in Penzance, which is where a lot of the opening shots of this are filmed. It's lovely to see the world she grew up in. Thanks for posting!

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yes---better than Photographs

[@lesleyyates4487]

At least a few years later she benefited from the introduction of the Welfare State that lifted millions out of poverty. That will be the NHS brought about by the 1945 Labour Government The Tories, with Churchill at the helm, voted against the NHS 21 times. Most of the people behind the camera who owned the nice cars when people in the 1920’s where working for starvation wages .....were Tories.

[@He1sbelles]

@@lesleyyates4487 not at all sure what your point is.

[@alexmorgan3435]

​@@lesleyyates4487 I thought the welfare state and the NHS was the work of Aneurin Bevan Labour Minister of Health following the Beveridge Report of 1942 by William Beveridge a Liberal economist? And Aneurin Bevan was a strong critic of Chamberlain Tory and his policy of appeasing Germany and the Nazis and pushed for Winston Churchill Tory to become Prime Minister. So less of the socialist propaganda!!!!

[@DaveJudd]

@@lesleyyates4487 Lets get Covid out the way and then "strike!! Power to the people! Or just watch a lovely film and keep politics out of it.

[@ponybottle]

What a lovely movie and a valuable social document. Thanks for sharing.

[@enriquearaujo7653]

Amazing. Old England at its best!

[@TimeMeddler]

And Scotland.

[@rehabwales]

And Wales

[@lesleyyates4487]

Blue passports anyone? You know if you travel abroad your wait in the ‘Queue’ will be lengthy Good one ....little Britain.

[@Iwan64Mat]

And Cornwall!

[@PillSharks]

@@lesleyyates4487 without my job which was directly under threat by the bent EU, I wouldn’t have had the money to go abroad! I voted leave and I’d do it again and again if I had the choice, thankfully that will never happened because the rest of Europe is waking up, within 10 years it will be a thing of the past...thank god! Maybe you should do the same, accept leave won and get on with it...but then again, why would you accept a democratic vote....you love the EU which is in itself, undemocratic

[@porkscratchings5428]

Amazing memories captured. We will never see this ever again the former U.K., where it was safe, respectful and people had a sense of decency ! Fast forward another century and I wonder how bad or good it will be? Let’s hope better! Lovely to see all the sights, a real gem! 👍👍

[@johnanonyimous5007]

Like the music chosen that goes with the film's era😊

[@disoriented1]

I've never been to the U.K., but it's always been a dream of mine...this was a quarter hour of pure escapist pleasure!...from a USA'er.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

It's not like that today.

[@blowingfree6928]

Stay away for your own sanity! The reality is just too cruel.......

[@stuartbroome1258]

Wonderful film, very British. An amazing restoration job thank you.

[@chriseliachandra8502]

Wow it's really a great video. I feel like I am a time traveler😁

[@mikehudson8884]

Superb, what a beautiful little film. I love the sound track too.

[@MrDaiseymay]

HEAR ! HEAR !

[@charlesross9260]

Yeah. Thanks for this and all your other films. Great job.

[@ladylaois8184]

Fantastic I agree

[@Dan_druft]

My late dads birthday today, he was born 1st December 1926. He would be 95 today, great film by the way.

[@Rick88888888]

Sorry that your father is no longer around

[@306champion]

How good was that. Bloody loved it.

[@garyhillman4993]

Amazing film. In colour too. What fantastic time they must of had on that car trip hardly any traffic just a few cows up in the highlands. Great video and note how clean n tidy London looked !

[@petergardner5002]

Clean because no throwaway packaging.

[@gromit3315]

A few years ago, my wife and I were on holiday in Cornwall. We stopped in Cockington for lunch. It was as beautiful there as it was 100 years ago. We are Belgians and over the past 20 years we have travelled all over England on more than 50 holidays. During a drive to St. Ives, we hit a traffic island. Consequence: serious damage and two flat tyres... Fortunately, we had travel assistance and notified the central office in Belgium. We were in a village of which I unfortunately do not remember the name and it took several hours before our car was towed and a taxi brought us back to our holiday home. All that time we were waiting by the side of the road. Some locals noticed this and twice people came to ask what had happened and if we were OK. But the most English question was also asked twice: "Would you like a cup of tea? I don't see that happening in our own Belgium. England has stolen our heart, years ago already. It has never let us go. Your country is beautiful and the people fantastic!

[@washubrain]

An amazing time travelling experience. It's just crazy to be able to see same places recognizable 100 years back, while knowing that all the people you see enjoying their lives are long gone..... has some touch of sadness in that....

[@almeggs3247]

Thank God you at least chose the music from that era. Thanks great most grateful!

[@daleskidmore1685]

What a beautiful film. I loved every second of it and the music was wonderful. The little girl blowing into the paper bag made me laugh, I had forgotten the you did this in the old days to open them, ha, ha. Thank you for sharing this film and al the work that went into preserving it.

[@devonseamoor]

Beautiful journey through Britain, in memoriam of those times almost a century ago! Thank you!

[@woooster17]

Really appreciate the time that goes into these edits.. love the music too.. I was born in 1971, but I often wonder if I was meant to be alive earlier.. Just something about this period that’s so...wonderful (I know, rose tinted glasses...2 world wars etc..) 😉

[@billkarmetsky4003]

The most enjoyable 43 minutes of my entire life. Thank you so much for this extraordinary film. I am left breathless, in a dream.

[@Rick88888888]

Thank you very much.

[@alexmorgan3435]

A+++. Thank you for showing what my country was like 94 years ago.

[@lindahoward3410]

Oh how I enjoyed this. So calming and relaxing.

[@lomoto1076]

Amazing ...you forget that there was colour in people lives 100 years ago..anybody else notice the lack of graffiti or rubbish in the streets..beautiful..

[@sarahstrong7174]

There was rubbish in the Kings Bath along with the goldfish though. Try as they might they couldn't avoid it all. Theres no rubbish in the Kings Bath now.

[@sarahstrong7174]

I rather suspect they were more picky about where they filmed then though. Just like you rarely saw films about working class characters. I doubt they would film in a messy slum with piles of rubbish & rats scurrying around. Gritty realism hadn't come into fashion then.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@Mark n Oh Absolutely! But I think that it is important people do not draw somewhat rash & incorrect conclusions from it. From the way people go on sometimes you would think that murder, mugging, theivery & riot were twentieth century inventions.

[@abosalemalansari8312]

Really amazing, life in London over 94 years ago .

[@1969Wilus]

This is the world the late Queen was born into. A fascinating document which shows the bad as well as the good, the poor as well as the rich. Thanks for making it available in such a beautifully restored form (though I'd have preferred to see it with the original intertitles)

[@chancesareshewears]

hardly, she was born into luxury and privilege while her subjects wallowed in the mire.

[@charleshoward1475]

I'm nearly sixty now. It's hard to imagine my own father wasn't born for several Years after this production was made. I'm living in Cornwall and there's been plenty of changes within my lifetime. They call it progress hey. I adore this thank You.

[@angelagallagher8136]

Nobody on mobile phones, no fast food places, everything looks so much simpler, there is an innocence about it you don't get today, wish I could go back and experience a day in the past, probably wouldn't want to come back... Makes you realise how short life is, 1926 is not that long ago in history terms and yet all the ppl here are certainly all gone...

[@sarahstrong7174]

Wouldn't want to come back till you were ill or lost your job. Not that many of us would have the skills to get a job back then, there are a huge number of skills we have gained but a surprising number we have lost too.

[@angelagallagher8136]

@Sam Spade that's the million dollar question, we will all find out... One day..

[@maccagrabme]

@@sarahstrong7174 I doubt any of them would prefer our lives.

[@svendtveskg5719]

Absolutely spiffing!

[@ohmeowzer1]

Very relaxing after a long day at the hospital , the music is helping me forget my day love this over much

[@blissy1]

Take me back to those days!! Thanks for sharing

[@lesleyyates4487]

You really wouldn’t want to go back to those days ...honestly. Polio, Diphtheria, Typhoid. Rickets, kids dying from measles and mumps. No modern appliances to help with housework..... just a hard slog through life for the poor, of which there were many.

[@resnonverba137]

@@lesleyyates4487 You little ray of sunshine you.

[@rodden1953]

My Dad had his tonsils removed om their kitchen table , great time

[@blairmacewancrosbie8646]

And, I may add, a gorgeous soundtrack to accompany the film.....Whoever put this music to the film deserves an Oscar for best sound track....

[@danicornea]

Lovely...thanks a lot ...teleportation back in time...big surprise...people are not very different back then as we are today...

[@mayanganggarani]

It is a gem. Thank you for uploading this.

[@timelordtardis]

Amazing and all at the correct speed.

[@billg7205]

29:08 certainly not too fast!

[@ivannaslobojanska2738]

Дякуємо Вам за створення цього чудового каналу! 👍👍👍 Надзвичайно цікаво подорожувати в часі ,спостерігати за життям мешканців різних міст,країн!

[@blowingfree6928]

it is interesting, watching these ghosts. You must have similar from the Ukraine. Цікаво спостерігати за цими привидами. Ви повинні мати те ж саме з України.

[@ledrevonellyledrevo606]

Formidable,superbe,merci beaucoup, magnifique,vidéos et musique d'accompagnement très justes, c'est un régal !!!!bravo👍et merci de continuer à nous enchanter🤩

[@freespiritnufc5661]

Two words that sum up this video Simply Wonderful 🌈⛄🎄⛄

[@Rick88888888]

Thanks again!

[@nicnak4475]

Fascinating ! All down hill since then ! Thanks for posting.

[@fiveyears6384]

Magnificent film, it made me think of my parents and grandparents who lived through these times. Thank you.

[@jubalixzxcain3030]

I have been many of those places in Cornwall in the 1980s and again in 2000

[@Rick88888888]

There is a film about Cornwall in the 1916 on my channel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3_IgHR5haeEqaM

[@blairmacewancrosbie8646]

What a discovery...absolutely amazing..wonderful...a true time capsule........What a pleasure to watch....thank you for posting this treasure....

[@richhaezaertable]

Absobloodylutely fantastic. Just seeing what life was like, and I wish it still was, back then....... Brilliant. Thank you.

[@doubtingthomas736]

Priceless! What a real treasure

[@Kuessemir]

My grandmother was alive then as a girl and is still alive. She has more energy than me! haha. Still roller skating, too!

[@honkytonk4465]

Why father was born 1 year later at a very young age.

[@paulmorris3613]

i found this an excellent use of film to record sights and travels of the time, Thank you.

[@rexshearn9246]

Beautiful video love to go back in time to experience

[@MrDaiseymay]

Me too, so-long as I'm in the car, and not working the fields

[@yourrealdad88]

Looks like they had a good summer.

[@3m5r56]

Music is excellent. It adds that happy pep to the films of the late 20s and early 30s.

[@JCJasion]

What an incredible time capsule!

[@MarkTheDesigner]

Alright everyone, put on your suit and tie, we're going to the beach!

[@alexmorgan3435]

People were a lot poorer then than they are today but they still made an effort to dress smartly.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@alexmorgan3435Thats true, however lower echelons of society usually only had one suit or dress for best, no alternatives, & that only if they were lucky. They had to use that for all outings. Now people have other options & we think of suits & dresses as being smart or formal. It is just that we now think of suits or dresses as 'smart' because we use them for formal occasions, whereas for them it was all they had, if they were lucky. If in manual work the work clothes they had would often be very stained, faded, sweatmarked & tattered & they had little else to wear. Now most people have a choice of clothes & have more suitable items for visiting the beach in than a suit. But still most people do use old concept smart clothes for a wedding for example. I guess what I am saying is that smart is a concept, rather than a specific style of dress & concepts can change.

[@a3103-j7g]

2020: Alright everyone, put on your face masks, rasta caps, turbans, hijabs and burkas , we're going to the beach! 2030: Alright everyone, open your quran, we're going to pray!

[@madcarew.3256]

My Dad did!

[@timothysdog6130]

It looks better than the sloppy mess I see every day living at the seaside now

[@chrisstone8210]

Beautiful, but I would've liked a few more clues as to where they were.

[@steveriley1952]

Absolute quality … just found your channel and subscribed ! The people in these films looked happy … I’m not seeing this today 😕

[@Rick88888888]

Welcome aboard!

[@paulnunnink7338]

It looks like a more calmer time than ours, but I fear that’s only true for the well-to-do of those days. Well, however let’s enjoy anyway......

[@Christerart]

Not much has changed - the rich are just as far removed as they were then.

[@DementedCaver]

1926 was the calm between the storms though.

[@Christerart]

@@chilloutcafe9523 You're welcome. You do not have to eat gruel - Quaker Oats (you can buy it in boxes of 50) is both great tasting and inexpensive. Perfect with a helping of fruit. You should try it.

[@Christerart]

@Plutarch Good evening Mr. Troll. Next time you scream your head off, try to think instead of showing your a$$ to the world.

[@wolfstock6030]

it's only phantastic. Thank you from Germany.

[@indigenereuropaer2425]

👍

[@ladylaois8184]

Absolutely beautiful! We thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@MarkEGreen-rf4on]

A rare glimpse of the painter Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch RA painting on the Cornish coast, perhaps at Lamorna Cove where he lived.

[@dessysmith2514]

St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall. I go to the end of my road and St Michael's Mount is there. I feel privileged.

[@jimih8539]

Really enjoyed this, I stumbled across it quite randomly 👏👏👏👏

[@EagleZP73]

Their smiles were more sincere.

[@trigsretromotors]

Sad to think that 13 years later many of them children would have been fighting or sadly even being killed in WW2. Fascinating video.

[@learning.7]

Loved this wee video, Thankyou for sharing, x

[@ktkat1949]

Wonderful video. Amazing how little has changed. I recognize the city where my grandparents were born and raised. At this time they would still be living there before they immigrated to Canada. Sometimes these old videos make me sad as I look at the youngsters and wonder how many of them survived WWII. But everyone looks happy and they have no idea what is coming into their lives in a very few short years. Best to be ignorant of the future I think.

[@johnsmith-mq4eq]

Nearly all would lived through the war Britain's total war deaths was around 250,000 for the 6 years war around 60,000 died in the 6 years bombing the atom bombs dropped on Japan killed around 200,000 in a couple of days

[@blowingfree6928]

@@johnsmith-mq4eq It is not just deaths; it is also the disruption to people's lives, the many thousands of casualties that were badly injured, maimed, burnt; the relatives of the dead and injured, the rationing, the lack of housing, accommodation, food, clothing, travel, light etc, the general miserable existence. There is also the disaster of the huge negative economic impact. Makes the current covid outbreak where everyone is panicking and moaning look like a pleasant tea party.

[@wolfstock6030]

W O N D E R F U L and the Music also !!!! Thank you from Cologne / Germany

[@austinshackles549]

For the car buffs, I'm reasonably sure that it's a Vauxhall 30-98, which was considered a rival for Bentley and definitely an upper class car of its day.

[@richardbrown1189]

It's not artificially coloured. It's an early two-colour process invented by Claude Freise-Greene, which used just red and blue/green to create the impression of full colour.

[@mikehudson8884]

Thanks for the explanation. I can see that now. It's very clever and it does give an impression of colour doesn't it.

[@Graham_Langley]

If you look closely you can still red and green fringes on rapidly moving objects.

[@Zalley]

Excuse my lack of knowledge, but does the technique involve going painstakingly through each section of film and making each area within each section the closest colour you can to what the colour was like in life?

[@mikehudson8884]

@@Zalley I wondered that too. It's very convincing and it DOES give the ILLUSION of colour.

[@GrrMeister]

*Each color channel is expressed from 0 (least saturated) to 255 (most saturated). This means that 16,777,216 different colors can be represented in the RGB color space.*

[@davecampbell5734]

Excellent film and an exquisite soundtrack

[@jameswhitfield1375]

Hard to believe that this excellent film reveals life in Britain less than 10 years after the end of World War One. What is shows is that life goes on. The music blends perfectly with the imagery and the whole thing is sheer joy. One for the collection.

[@davidcorbett62]

What a treasure. Yes life was much harder then for the working class and people didn’t have much but they did all right and all the kids looked happy even without an I pad or mobile phone!! But it opens up a new viewpoint as to the colours then, when we all are used to black and white from that era. A bonus was the town centres, free from the sameness we see now and when individual shopkeepers where the norm

[@paularowe7651]

Really lovely!

[@terencefield3204]

How nice to see Mr Claude Frieze-Greene continued with cinematography, after the sad death and heroic efforts of his fine father, William. A dynasty of great and heroic achievers.

[@MrDaiseymay]

ABSOLUTELY---WELL SAID.

[@matthewharding1064]

Crazy to think if all the cars, boats and properties shown on this film were still around today they would be worth a lot more than today's equivalent.

[@benaviisme9471]

such beautiful footage how nice it was to see kids playing free without a phone glued to there hands :::: have we made progress ????

[@vlz5175]

I enjoyed it ☺️

[@sarahbettany7546]

Blimey, it’s incredible that, as someone who’s lived in West Penwith for over 20 years, I can recognise streets and steps from back then - build things with granite and you only build them once!...and incidentally, just a few minutes in, they’re editing at least Penzance, Newlyn, St. Ives and possibly Mousehole into one.

[@martinhiggins9814]

A real gem. Thanks for posting.

[@caspaabriel4794]

Amazing and captivating. Almost one hundred years ago (1/11/2020) and in colour, of cause not todays technology but still giving that sense of realism and of being there. The people, places, scenery so wonderful. The little babies in the film, if still alive, would be between 96 and 100 years old today. These events took place about 70 years before I was born. Nostalgia gives me a grand sense of happiness. Only I omitted your sound track for Hans Zimmer's Time. Kind Regards and Respect

[@RonRicho]

Another stunner from Rick88888888

[@vivienmeddings7068]

Wonderful...wish we could live a simpler life....such an amazing insight to life then.Superb music.

[@Tenagor]

13:30 is High Street, Market Drayton. "DIED ON CRICKET FIELD. The funeral took place at Market Drayton yesterday of Mr. Eric Cushing, eldest eon of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cushing, Alexandra Road. Market Drayton. Deceased, who recently came of age, died suddenly on the cricket field at Market Drayton on Thursday. A wellknown sportsman, he was held in the highest esteem by all classes. There was a large gathering at the funeral." Birmingham Daily Gazette - Tuesday 07 May 1929

[@devonseamoor]

Wow, that large gentle roller-coaster thing at the 19th minute, at sea somewhere, is a wonderful construction, very large. I wish they made it like that again. Far more gentle, and enjoyable for the entire family, in those funny round bathtub-like wagons. I'm sure there was only live music, a small orchestra in the open air, somewhere, no blasting of music from giant speakers and that sort of nuisance.

[@rogerfroud300]

The footage of London is particularly interesting. There are a few arrow markings on the roads, but mostly it's just bare unmarked tarmac.

[@trucktalkvideos]

I'v seen some of the film on the British Empire in Colour but to see it all is amazing my type of era...

[@jamesgovett2501]

Crikey looks like there are some steep hills up there in the uk, Scotland l suppose? What a fantastic piece of history, geez they would have had to drive slowly and only in your dry season as that Vauxhall car was before most cars had 4 wheel brakes as you wouldn’t want to be driving around in your winter season with only 2 wheel rear brakes like that Vauxhall had it would be just like pulling you hand brake on coming down those hills, even Chevrolet didn’t have 4 wheel brakes until around 1928, but what a wonderful snapshot of life nearly 100 years ago with everybody going about their everyday lives and the service station with shell gravity bowsers all in colour too absolutely mesmerising, probably similar to what it was like in our capital cities here in Australia the time too.

[@janesmith9024]

We must try to preserve all these old films as they are so interesting and useful and tell us about how some of our ancestors lived. Apart from London this is all taken on the West not East side of the UK so most of the parts where my ancestors lived are not on it but still very interesting

[@stevenbarnett2866]

Awesome, warmed my heart to view. Thank you so much.

[@comicmania2008]

Really nice movie to see! Some looks kind of familiar, wasn't sure where I was when I was watching.... but who cares? Lovely film.

[@catmarrco7863]

How can some people dislike this. I wish they would comment why.

[@davewalsh4075]

Thanks for posting this , its brilliant!

[@ginatorres4434]

Beautiful and good music!!!

[@jameslowe57]

Absolutely love it! Can I get a copy of the musical songs please!

[@resnonverba137]

That's what happens when a lady is appointed navigator :) Lovely video, thanks for upload.

[@jimbradshaw4]

That was just enchanting, thank you!