Wedgwood Etruria Pottery, Staffordshire c1926

The Wedgwood Pottery provides the only internal sequence in the film – the potter at his wheel and the ladies at work in the painting room.

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.

For more information about ‘The Open Road’ see
www.bfi.org.uk/features/openroad