Claude Friese-Greene Movies

In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.

A comedy film directed by Norman Walker

During 1924 and for the next two years, Claude Friese-Greene, filmmaker and cinematographer, embarked on an epic journey, and calling it The Open...

A romantic drama film directed by Norman Walker.

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

'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)

The legend of how colour came into the world.

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.

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...

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...

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

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

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the...

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

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

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

A demonstration of the Friese-Greene biocolour process.

Colour footage of London.