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Claude Friese-Greene (3 May 1898, Fulham
Fulham

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, London
London

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 – 1943, Islington
Islington

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, London
London

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) (born Claude Harrison Greene), British-born cinema technician and filmmaker, and notably most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled The Open Road.

Friese-Greene's father William Friese-Greene
William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of film and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography....
 was a pioneer in early cinematography and began the development of a colour film process called Biocolour. This process produced the illusion of true colour by exposing each alternate frame of ordinary black and white film stock through a two different coloured filters.






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Claude Friese-Greene (3 May 1898, Fulham
Fulham

Fulham is an area of south-west London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, located south west of Charing Cross. It is situated in between Putney and Chelsea, London....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 – 1943, Islington
Islington

Islington is the central district of the London Borough of Islington. It is an inner-city district in London, spanning from Islington High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the area around the busy A1 road #Upper Street....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) (born Claude Harrison Greene), British-born cinema technician and filmmaker, and notably most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled The Open Road.

Friese-Greene's father William Friese-Greene
William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of film and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography....
 was a pioneer in early cinematography and began the development of a colour film process called Biocolour. This process produced the illusion of true colour by exposing each alternate frame of ordinary black and white film stock through a two different coloured filters. Each alternate frame of the monochrome print was then stained red or green. Although the projection of Biocolour prints did provide a tolerable illusion of true colour it suffered from noticeable flickering and red and green fringing when the subject was in rapid motion. In an attempt to overcome the colour fringing problem a faster-than-usual frame rate was used.

George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith (inventor)

George Albert Smith was an inventor, a stage hypnotism, psychic, astronomy and magic lantern lecturer and one of the pioneer's of British cinema....
 and Charles Urban
Charles Urban

Charles Urban was an Anglo-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in Cinema of the United Kingdom before the First World War....
 filed a lawsuit against William, claiming that the Biocolour process infringed upon Smith's Kinemacolor
Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906, and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co....
 patents. William won the first round, but in 1914 the House of Lords
House of Lords

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 reversed the previous decision in favor of Smith and Urban. This meant that William Friese-Greene was unable to exploit the Biocolour system to its full potential. After William's death in 1921, Claude Friese-Greene continued to develop the system during the 1920s. Claude was a cinematographer for more than 60 films from 1923 to 1943.

In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene
The Lost World of Friese-Greene

The Lost World of Friese-Greene is a BBC documentary film series produced in conjunction with the British Film Institute. Three one-hour episodes were broadcast on BBC Two in spring 2006 in television....
, presented by Dan Cruickshank
Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank is an Architecture History and television presenter, currently working for the BBC, and lives in Spitalfields, London. As a young child he lived for some years in Poland....
 about Claude Friese-Greene's 1920s road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats
Land's End to John o' Groats

Land's End to John o' Groats is a journey - the traversal of the whole of the island of Great Britain from southwest to northeast.* Land's End is the extreme southwestward point of Great Britain, situated in western Cornwall at the end of the Penwith Peninsula....
, which he filmed using the Biocolour process. The original print of Claude's film was subjected to computer enhancement by the British Film Institute
British Film Institute

The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:...
 to remove the flickering problem.

List of Films in Biocolour

  • Dance of the Moods (1924) featuring modern dancer Margaret Morris
  • Moonbeam Magic (1924)
  • Quest of Colour (1924)
  • The Open Road (1924-1926) restored by the British Film Institute
    British Film Institute

    The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:...
     2005


See also

  • Color film (motion picture)
    Color film (motion picture)

    This article discusses the evolution and technology behind color photographic film, with specific focus on motion pictures....
  • List of color film systems
    List of color film systems

    This is a list of Color film known to have been developed for shooting or viewing color motion pictures since the development of such photographic technology towards the end of the 19th century....


External links

  • at BBC History
  • at BBC History
  • at BBC History