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The
Open Road
(1925)

British Film Institute
2007 edition

The Open Road (1925), color, 64 minutes total, BBFC Classification E.

BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD739, UPC 5-035673-00739-6.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; £19.99.
Release date: 27 August 2007.
Country of origin: England

Originally produced for video by the BFI, this compilation of original footage from a series of travel documentary shorts shot in color captures life in the United Kingdom during the 1920s.

The films are accompanied by a music score performed by Neil Brand and Günter Buchwald.

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