The Lost World of Friese-Greene is a BBC documentary series produced in conjunction with the British Film Institute.
The series, presented by Dan Cruickshank, retraces a road trip that Claude Friese-Greene took between 1924 and 1926[1] from Land's End to John o' Groats.
The Open Road was donated to the BFI National Archive by Friese-Greene's son in the 1950s and the job of restoration and explanation took several decades.
[3] The British Film Institute used computer processing of the images to minimise the red and green fringes around rapidly moving objects.
According to Dan Cruickshank, the purpose of recreating Friese-Greene's journey was "to see what has changed in Britain in the last 80 years and, perhaps more intriguingly, to see what remains the same.