The Scottish Open Road — colour footage of life in Scotland in the 1920s

Shot around a hundred years ago using a two-colour process — NOT artificially coloured! 00:00 Bagpiper at the Gates of Dawn — Loch Lomond, Stirling castle, farming 05:35 Oban fishing, Clyde ship-building, Glasgow, Edinburgh 10:02 Dr MacPhail's Roadtrip — Stirling to John O'Groat's The original footage is silent — the music is a modern take on celtic sounds to suit the abstract & nostalgic quality of the video material: Clannad — Caislean Oir (Planet Heaven mix) Wolfstone — J-Time Capercaillie — Dr MacPhail's Reel into Dr MacPhail's Trance ('92 version) The original footage — perhaps the best surviving colour footage from the era — was taken 1924-1926 by Claude Friese-Greene for silent documentary film "The Open Road" and was restored from negatives in 2006 by the BFI, and here edited (some motion correction, a lot of colour correction for a clearer & rose-tinted vibe), intertitles overlaid, & upscaled to just over full HD (a 15:11 ratio) to bring you all the material from Scotland. The two-colour process used red and cyan (blue-green) — reds come out very well, which is good news for gingers and the odd hairy coo, but less so for greens which come out as dark cyan. You'll see colour fringes around moving objects as each alternate frame of the footage captured one of the two colours as the film was taken.