Kelvingrove Park Glasgow, Scotland (1926)

A Sunday afternoon's entertainment for Glasgow's inhabitants.

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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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Open
• Road
• travelogue
• Leisure
• Games
• Toys
• Glasgow
• Scotland
• 1920s
• Kelvingrove
• Park
• Bandstand
• Brass
• band
• Sunday

[AUCHINSTARRY]

Just seen this brilliant I have heard from good authourity that the bandstand will be restored seems I started something with the Imprints video thanks again .

[Nanobots]

This is brilliant. Amazing to see how little the park has changed, I was there yesterday. And great to see the fantastic bandstand in use. The council seem determined to let it decay to the point where they'll have the perfect excuse to pull it down (and sell the plot for a pub development!).

Great work, BFI!

[scottbrown2001]

back then scotland has better cameras then some have today

[Monsterpop]

thats absolutely fantastic to see,odd to think i was there many time,almost 60 years later,and weird to think how fast times changed. cheers