Press cuttings and programmes, chiefly concerning 'Kinema-Color' films, 1908-1921. 3 vols p1-37, 38-75, 76-124. Part of Charles Urban Archive.
Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906 and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From 1909 on, the process was known and trademarked as Kinemacolor (The Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited). It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters.
Colour advertising brochure for the film, 'Britain Prepared', Charles Urban Trading Co, London, 1915. 'A Grand Revue of the Activities of His Majesty's Naval & Military Forces.'
Advertising print entitled 'With The Fighting Forces of Europe'. Part of the Charles Urban archive.
An advertisement for Kinemacolor by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited, printed by the Dangerfield Printing Company in London, c. 1911. The advertisement boasts that Kinemacolor is 'The only system of Animated Pictures in the Actual Colors of Nature'.
Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906 and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From 1909 on, the process was known and trademarked as Kinemacolor (The Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited). It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters. Urban formed the Natural Color Kinematograph Company in 1909.
