Photograph Albums of Charles Urban Trading Co

PART OF:
The Charles Urban Collection of papers relating to early motion pictures
Made:
1895-1915

Photograph Albums of Charles Urban Trading Co, Kinemacolor House and the Urban Bioscope in Manchuria etc, 1895-1915. 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. It was 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.

Details

Category:
Cinematography
Object Number:
2005-5002/11
type:
collection
credit:
Charles Urban

Parts

Photograph album relating to Charles Urban Trading Company Ltd

Photograph album relating to Charles Urban Trading Company Ltd

Photograph Album featuring interior and exterior views of The Warwick Trading Company Ltd, Charles Urban Trading Company Ltd, The Urban Institute, The Kineto Company of America, Inc, Kinemacolor House, London, and the Theatre Edouard VII, Paris, House of Kinemacolor, [57p 100 illustrations] 1 booklet The Home of Kinematography/London: Charles Urban Trading Company Ltd. 28p illus.

Measurements:
overall: 256 mm x 315 mm x 43 mm,
Materials:
paper (fibre product) , cardboard , metal (unknown) and ink
Object Number:
2005-5002/11/2
type:
photograph albums