Charles Urban

Charles Urban

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.

  • Title: Charles Urban
  • Popularity: 0.374
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1867-04-15
  • Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Homepage: https://www.charlesurban.com/
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Charles Urban Movies

  • 1916
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    The Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme

    6.5 1916 HD

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  • 1909
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    A Dash to the North Pole

    A Dash to the North Pole

    1 1909 HD

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  • 1915
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    Britain Prepared

    Britain Prepared

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1911
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    Building a British Railway: Constructing the Locomotive

    Building a British Railway: Constructing the Locomotive

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1904
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    Venice and the Grand Canal

    Venice and the Grand Canal

    1 1904 HD

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  • 1910
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    The Aerial Submarine

    The Aerial Submarine

    4.5 1910 HD

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  • 1911
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    Banks of the Nile

    Banks of the Nile

    5 1911 HD

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  • 1911
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    Banks of the Nile

    Banks of the Nile

    5 1911 HD

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  • 1916
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    The Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme

    6.5 1916 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1911
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    The Aerial Anarchists

    The Aerial Anarchists

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1915
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    Fight for the Dardanelles

    Fight for the Dardanelles

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    Fight for the Dardanelles

    Fight for the Dardanelles

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1910
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    Fording the River

    Fording the River

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1908
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    The Harvest

    The Harvest

    1 1908 HD

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  • 1911
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    A Run with the Exmoor Staghounds

    A Run with the Exmoor Staghounds

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1911
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    Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage

    Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1911
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    Feeding Poultry at Prowse Jones Farm

    Feeding Poultry at Prowse Jones Farm

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1910
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    Lake Garda, Italy

    Lake Garda, Italy

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Pageant Procession

    The Pageant Procession

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1904
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    Hunting the Red Deer, With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds

    Hunting the Red Deer, With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds

    1 1904 HD

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  • 1904
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    Living London

    Living London

    1 1904 HD

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  • 1911
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    Varieties of Sweet Peas

    Varieties of Sweet Peas

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1907
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    Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

    Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

    1 1907 HD

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  • 1906
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    The Arlberg Railway

    The Arlberg Railway

    10 1906 HD

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  • 1911
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    Trilby and Svengali

    Trilby and Svengali

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1908
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    Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]

    Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]

    1 1908 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1914
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    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1910
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    The Birth of a Flower

    The Birth of a Flower

    6.6 1910 HD

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  • 1902
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    The Coronation of Edward VII

    The Coronation of Edward VII

    4.6 1902 HD

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  • 1902
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    The Coronation of Edward VII

    The Coronation of Edward VII

    4.6 1902 HD

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  • 1923
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    Armenia, Cradle of Humanity

    Armenia, Cradle of Humanity

    1 1923 HD

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