Claude Friese-Greene
Claude Friese-Greene (3 May 1898 in Fulham, London – 1943 in Islington, London) was a British-born cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer, most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled The Open Road.[1]
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Biography
Claude, born Claude Harrison Greene was the son of William Friese-Greene, a pioneer in early cinematography. He was the grandfather of musician and music producer Tim Friese-Greene.[2]
Colour cinematography
Claude's father William began the development of an additive 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 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.
After William's death in 1921, Claude Friese-Greene continued to develop the system during the 1920s and renamed the process Friese-Greene Natural Colour. Claude was cinematographer on 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 series, presented by Dan Cruickshank included The Open Road Claude Friese-Greene's film of his 1920s road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats. The Open Road was filmed using the Biocolour process, and the British Film Institute had to use computer enhancement of the original print of the film 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 2005
Selected filmography
- Home at Last (1926)[3]
- Tommy Atkins (1928)
- Widecombe Fair (1928)
- A Romance of Seville (1929)
- The Middle Watch (1930)
- Uneasy Virtue (1931)
- The Flying Fool (1931)
- The Shadow Between (1931)
- Fires of Fate (1932)
- For the Love of Mike (1932)
- A Southern Maid (1933)
- The Song You Gave Me (1933)
- Give Her a Ring (1934)
- The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
- Menace (1934)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
- No Monkey Business (1935)
- Music Hath Charms (1935)
- Drake of England (1935)
- Gypsy Melody (1936)
- Star of the Circus (1938)
- Oh Boy! (1938)
- Murder in Soho (1939)
- The Middle Watch (1940)
- The Flying Squad (1940)
- The Farmer's Wife (1941)
- Hard Steel (1942)
- The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
- Banana Ridge (1942)
See also
References
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- ↑ Home at Last A Personal Study of Claude Friese-Greene the inventor of the Friese-Greene colour process. (1926) British Film Institute (BFI) digitally enhanced colour film of London streets and parks.
