East Budleigh, Devon (1924)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2008
- Harvest time in Devon.
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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Thank you BFI, amazingly clear film 🎥 a time long gone. Beautiful 👍🇬🇧
I want some trousers like that
Beautiful 🇬🇧
Thats is just the coolest thing, i live there and to be honest, its hardly changed!
Can i go back there please?
Beautiful. Might have been a different story filmed from October to April though!!
Glad he got a proper swig of that ale/cider.
" Get it down yer, Lad!"
I wish some of these brief snippets from different locations could be stitched together into a bit longer a segment.
Nothings changed... Motorist still miffed stuck behind Hay wagon.. Hehe
Though life was harder then think people were in many ways a lot happier.Love the farm labourer swigging his cider lol.Did that now hed be sacked for drinking at work
A delightful film - and nice enough music, but it's a shame period light orchestral music from the mid '20s wasn't used. There was huge amount of really wonderful music written at this time and it would have a been a perfect chance to rediscover some. I guess a modern day composer has been given an some work (which is nice to see), but I can't help regretting how much great music from the teens and 1920s remains largely forgotten.
Do you have any recommendations? A playlist?
Ray noble
What was funny to me was how he was eyeing the camera and wiping his mustache on the back of his hand ... only to realize his manners were wanting. And reaches for his handkerchief instead. As in, "Ooops! You didn't see that."
Love it..👍
Beautiful life
Love this.
I’ll bet that guy appreciated that wagon pulling out when it did.
Wow amazing to see . I'm from Devon :-)
Excellent Thanks.
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Chap in the car showed up at just the wrong moment!! Next 4 miles at 1.5 mph!
Dang horseless carriages!
And if I'm right on holiday from London
That’s a housing estate now.
East Budleigh, Devon [1924]
Was this colorized, or did they use the old Technicolor 2-strip process?
it is Brilliant, very hard Working People in those Days, times were hard. The Hooray Henry in his Car going mad with the Hay Cart blocking him,the beginnings of Car Centric Britain.
@Jennifer Blane i think the reg number comes from Middlesex so probably on holiday.
Thinking of cars, i would say my great grand father had only the second car registered in the next door county, Dorset. Well i would if i was the bragging sort. 😉
What's the song used?
It's not all that bad, there are still some places who live old fashioned like Amish and some tribes in the Amazon and India
How can anyone say budleigh hasn’t change the film only showed a field
Well it's all fields now, do you think it used to be an housing estate then?
Lucky that car wasn't coming the other way.
Hardy. Need I say anymore?
@airscrew1 Amen to that. I always wish I had been born in the late 1800s or in the early 1900s. I know it was a tougher lifestyle but still, life was just better back then in so many ways.
Are they sure it's 1924 ? The film seems to be running at a perfect speed and the car looks more 1930s to me ? But what do I know.
Better "in so many ways"? It was worse in a lot more ways than it was better. The most obvious example is WW I and WW II: I have no desire at all to experience both World Wars first hand. And that's just ONE of the disadvantages of that time. There are lots more if look at it realistically, instead of romantically.
@Jennifer Blane I already lived through more warfree years than the entire timespan between WW1 and WW2. And those were just EXAMPLES. Our lives have improved in so many ways it's impossible to write them down in a simple YT comment. Open your eyes and take a realistic look at an average life 100 years ago, instead of a romantic one.
Devon hasn't changed at all. Still no mobile signal and an overpowering smell of horse shit.