Fascinating Footage Gives Rare Colour Insight Into London In 1927

[factor-fiction]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-colour-footage-london-1927-112057417.html?vp=1#TGlfRWw
I wonder if any ABers are featured on this footage.

[aelmpvw]

Fascinating, don't the roads and pavements look clean and tidy?

[Sharingan]

Isn't that lovely? Beautiful quality too xx

[factor-fiction]

Yes, everyone looked so smart.
And everywhere was so quiet!

[jno]

very nice (apart from all the Ukip comments appended).

I think I was being held in the Tower of London at the time, so I can't be seen.

[tonyav]

Great film that ff, I spotted a doctor looking type of bloke on one of those omnibuses, can't quite put my finger on who it could have been though !.

[WyeDyed]

Thanks FF, I've posted a link non my mothers FB page.

I notice in the street scene, there are very few men not wearing hats and all are wearing ties.

[vulcan42]

A time when everybody wore hats and nobody was fat.

[Mosaic]

"Everyone wore hats and nobody was fat...."
Could the absence of private cars on the roads have been a factor?

What a wonderful film clip, I could watch it for hours.

[jno]

no, they just didn't have Big Macs in those days. Or, by and large, huge portions. But they did use tubes and buses, so not necessarily much more walking.

[Peter Pedant]

Many thanks FF. There is a film about Frieze Green - basically an also ran in the movie history bit. He pioneered a colour system which used two basic colours and this explains why the greens are not good but the reds are OK.

He then did a all-country tour, using his film.
This was re engineered and broadcast about ten years ago.
They had interviews with people whose parents or who themselves were in the shows

He ALSO has a blue-plaque in a back street in central Brighton

There was a lot of litigation around mmovies at this time
and Friese green was one of the losers.

[Peter Pedant]

Nothing is new in the world

which is kinda like semper aliquid novum ex Africa

Posted here:

and is correctly given the context of the last episode of the Open Road Series.

[Mamyalynne]

Really enjoyed that, thanks.

[wolf63]

Why aren't the people walking really fast like in other old films.

It is weird to think that this was filmed the year before my late father was born.

[Peter Pedant]

ah there is an anwer to the walking speed bit.

The old black and white telly frame refresh rate was I think 30/s
and this was appreciably faster than the clockwork frame rate of the old cine films
so they just showed it at 30 / s and everything was faster.

and now they have got over the problem.

IN fact see the other thread - the colour film was Frieze Green's own and used two colours which is appreciably less colourful [or good] than some of the others. He used a faster frame rate - see wiki - but there were alternating green and red frames and the flicker was a real problem at the time.

I seem to recollect that it was so bad that some people puked

all that has been ironed out

IN fact the film is the the last part of the open road and is posted on U tube

[jno]

he did get his own biopic at the time of the Festival of Britain, though

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043769/