Movies: Claude Friese-Greene

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child....

Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost h...

This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931)....

A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents....

A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it....

A comedy film directed by Norman Walker...

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder....

When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father....

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah....

As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina....

A romantic drama film directed by Norman Walker....

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. Entitled The Open Road, his remarkable travelogue was conceived as ...

The legend of how colour came into the world....

A woman poses, in and out of her diaphanous shift....

A travelogue of the North Cornwall coast featuring views of Porth, Allen Valley, Trevose Head, Prideaux Place, Padstow, Wadebridge, St.Teath and Boscastle....

Colour footage of London....

A demonstration of the Friese-Greene biocolour process....

Famous dancer Margaret Morris performs her dances in a short film made in the experimental Friese-Greene Natural Colour process....