Charles Urban
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Charles Urban is an American producer, director, cinematographer and editor born April 14, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States), died August 29, 1942 in Brighton (United Kingdom).
Urban made many types of non-fiction films at the Charles Urban Trading Company, including travel films, war reports, exploration films, sports films, commercials and natural history films. Filmmakers who worked for him include Jack Avery, Joseph Rosenthal, Charles Rider Noble, Harold Mease Lomas, mountaineer Frank Ormiston-Smith, George Rogers, J. Gregory Mantle, and naturalist F. Percy Smith. Smith directed one of Urban's most successful films, The Balancing Bluebottle (1908), which featured a fly balancing objects such as a wine cork with its legs.
In 1906, George Albert Smith and Charles Urban created a new process in England, Kinémacolor, which recreated the impression of (partial) colors in cinema. Marketed at the beginning of 1911, the process was used in some 250 short films.
In Paris, in 1913, Charles Urban built the Théâtre Édouard VII, which was above all a cinema using Kinémacolor. He sold his room to Alphonse Franck the following year.
Urban remained in the United States after the war to re-establish himself as a producer of educational films through his umbrella company, Urban Motion Picture Industries Inc. He produced the Charles cinemagazine series Urban Movie Chats (launched in 1919) and Kineto Review (launched 1921), and made the feature documentaries The Four Seasons (1921) and Evolution (1923). He built a large studio in Irvington, New York, where he planned to introduce a new color film system called Kinekrom, based on the old Kinemacolor, and to distribute educational films on disc using the Spirograph. However, his business interests collapsed in 1924 and he returned to the UK in the late 1920s. He died in Brighton in 1942, aged 75.
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The Battle of the Somme
Editor
Le couronnement du roi Édouard VII
Productor, Director
The Aerial Submarine
Productor
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Productor
Ascent of the Matterhorn
Productor
A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
Director
Building a British Railway: Constructing the Locomotive
Productor
Venice and the Grand Canal
Productor
Banks of the Nile
Productor, Director
Fording the River
Productor
Varieties of Sweet Peas
Productor
The Four Seasons
Director, Editor
The Arlberg Railway
Productor
The Birth of a Flower
Productor
Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage
Productor
Glasgow and the Clyde Coast
Productor
The Harvest
Productor
Britain Prepared
Director
Lake Garda, Italy
Productor
A Run with the Exmoor Staghounds
Productor
Living London
Director, Editor
A Dash to the North Pole
Productor
Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]
Productor
Feeding Poultry at Prowse Jones Farm
Productor