By Nick Enoch At first glance, these two images of the Thames, with the Houses of Parliament in the background, could be taken on the same day. But now compare them with another split image of the river - one showing a woman from the present day, the other showing a policeman from yesteryear. These remarkable pictures are actually stills from a film, illustrating a shot-by-shot comparison of London now and in 1927. It was 86 years ago that Claude Friese-Greene - a cinema technician, filmmaker and cinematographer - travelled across the UK with a new colour film camera to create his famous collection of films, The Open Road.
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Claude Friese-Greene travelled across UK with a new colour film camera to create his famous collection of films, The Open Road, culminating in amazing shots of London
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Filmmaker Simon Smith followed in Friese-Greene's footsteps to make a modern-day equivalent of the footage
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