Queens Park Glasgow, Scotland (1926)

The potential hazards of sailing model boats.

This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene's 'The Open Road' - originally filmed in 1925/6 and now re-edited and digitally resto This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene's 'The Open Road' - originally filmed in 1925/6 and now re-edited and digitally resto This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene's 'The Open Road' - originally filmed in 1925/6 and now re-edited and digitally restored by the BFI National Archive. Britain seen in colour for the first time was heralded as a great technical advance for the cinema audience - now we can view a much improved image, but one which still stays true to the principles of the colour process.

The rather haphazard journey from Land's End to John O'Groats creates a series of moving picture postcards. Look out for shots containing the component colours - red and blue-green - such as when a little girl in a red coat and hat walks among peacocks in the grounds of a castle, and three girls with red curly hair pose by the sea at Torquay.

The car is a Vauxhall D-type - considered a sporty model at the time. A long-distance journey by car was a relatively new concept, with none of the amenities en route now taken for granted. The visit to a petrol station shows smoking on the forecourt: no health and safety issues back then! The travelogue ends with a series of recognisable London landmarks. Much remains the same - one major exception being the volume of traffic on the roads. (Jan Faull)

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[neilb229]

@JackHauss Aye, we're all pining for small minded racists like yourself to return to Scotland!! Queen's Park is still a fine place to be on a summers day. If you couldn't handle the variety of folk out for a saunter then it's as well you left for wherever. Modern Scotland doesn't need dinosaurs like you.

[destructable2222]

@JackHauss seeing as though my last comment was removed ill say it again people like jack hauss who are in someone else's country as an immigrant making comments on how britain is getting taken over by ... immigrants lol thats what u call ironic ps to whoever is puting this video up if u remove my comment make sure u take this jack hauss comment off aswell !

[gainrage]

@marvy1118 by waiting until they reach the other side?

[JackHauss]

That is amazing . I love how the Dad holds the kid from falling in. I haven`t been there in a while, I assume it`s all members of the death religion running it now. Women dare to show some skin and men from the "religion of peace" will cut their throat if not blow them up. I`m so glad I got out of Europe, it`s just nothing but a bunch of Neville Chamberlains there now running things. Churchill is rolling over in his grave so much he must look like an electric fan on high speed..

[TellyDoofer]

Definitely from 0.09 is Q Park. Great stuff.

[marvy1118]

OK so how did they retrieve their sailboats?

[michaelismichael]

If only Queen's Park was kept like that now!

[glamfakir]

Rouken Glen up to 0.11, then Queens Park.

[1stchampagan]

First part has to be Rouken Glen Park. Second part most likely Queens Park.

[sennetor]

This looks a lot more like Rouken Glen Park?