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Lee and Turner Three-Colour Projector

Lee and Turner Three-Colour Projector

1902

Urban Bioscope 35mm Cine Camera

Urban Bioscope 35mm Cine Camera

circa 1910

Spirograph projector

Spirograph projector

1923

Filter tinting machine for 35mm film

Filter tinting machine for 35mm film

1902

Kinemacolor rewinder, by Urban

Kinemacolor rewinder, by Urban

Charles Urban examining Edison and Lumiere films

Charles Urban examining Edison and Lumiere films

ca. 1898

Natural Color Kinematograph Co. Ltd.

Natural Color Kinematograph Co. Ltd.

1909

Advertisement for Kinemacolor

Advertisement for Kinemacolor

circa 1912

Stage setting at Scala Theatre for Kinemacolor Delhi Durbar series

Stage setting at Scala Theatre for Kinemacolor Delhi Durbar series

1911

Bioscope projector

Bioscope projector

Bioscope projector, by Urban, with lamp

Bioscope projector

Urban Bioscope cine camera, No 198. Manufactured by Charles Urban Trading Company, 48 Rupert Street, Piccadilly, London W1. 300 foot magazines. Hand-cranked, with a fixed 180 degree sector shutter. The lens is a 70mm Collinear II, Serial No 80427, in a rack and pinion focussing mount. The camera has critical focussing though the rear of the film in the gate with an inspecting tube from the front. The cover for this is not original. It has a film speed indicator showing between 12 and 24 frames per second and a footage counter calibrated for 100 foot. Film punch inside. Possibly made by Darling, who made most of Urban's cameras.

Urban Bioscope cine camera

1905-1915

[Ms. memoirs of pioneer film producer Charles Urban, up to 1903, written in c.1941-2. Subtitled '"A Yank in Britain" recounting Behind the Scenes of the Motion Picture Industry. Facts not generally known. (Who's Who and What's What in the early days of the Motion Picture Industry)'. Taking his personal story up to 1903, it comprises a volume of 97 ms. pages, with numerous additional pages stuck in or loose, some of which details events in later years]

[Ms. memoirs of pioneer film producer Charles Urban]

circa 1941-1942

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.

Photograph album relating to Charles Urban Trading Company Ltd

1920s

Photograph showing Charles urban (centre) and two unidentified men in discussion at the Warwick Trading Co Ltd offices in High Holborn.

Charles Urban at the Warwick Trading Co

ca. 1898

Tearsheet advetisement for the Urban Motion Picture Industries, Inc. Images show executive offices, machine shop, and film and spirograph record laboratories. Located in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.

Urban Motion Picture Industries, Inc.

1922

Silver gelatin photograph showing the switch board of the generating plant at Urban Motion Picture Industries, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Page is annotated in black ink and dated 1927.

Switch board of generating plant at Urban Motion Picture Industries

1927

Thirty-three page booklet titled "The Home of Kinematography". Gives information on Urbanora House premises in London's Wardour Street. Also presents an article titled "Life Motion Pictures in natural Colours", reprinted from "The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly", London, November 19, 1908. Published by Charles Urban Trading Co. Ltd.

"The Home of Kinematography"

1908

Blue-tinted photogravure titled 'Phonograph and Kinetoscope Parlour'. Michigan Electric Co., 101 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 1895. Charles Urban, Manger.

Photograph of a Phonograph and Kinetoscope parlour

1895

Three photographs (two rotogravure prints) showing the manufacture of Urban Bioscopes.

Charles Urban Trading Co Ltd

1897

Four rotogravure prints showing empoyees at work in the Charles Urban Trading Co., located at 48 Rupert Street, Soho, London.

Charles Urban Trading Co Ltd

1898

Silver gelatin photograph showing the lobby of the Kineto Company of America, Ltd. Located in the Masonic Building, New York City. Image was torn in half, with bottom half inserted opposite the rest of the photograph so that the photograph would fit in the album.

Lobby of Kineto Company of America, Ltd.

circa 1917

Silver gelatin photograph showing Roeg machinery in the electric plant at Urban Motion Picture Industries, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.

Urban Motion Picture Industries electrical plant machinery

1927

Silver gelatin photograph showing Charles Urban (left) on board the North German ship SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, for the film showing the first Atlantic trip to New York from Bremen, Germany, 1905.

Charles Urban aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II

1905

Silver gelatin photograph showing the studio and laboratory spaces at the Urban Spirograph Corporation building in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Urban Spirograph Corporation

1919

Photograph showing the exterior of the first offices of the Warwick Trading Co Ltd. 1 Warwick Court, W.C., High Holborn. Charles Urban appointed managing director in 1897.

First offices of the Warwick Trading Co Ltd

1896

Photograph showing a close-up of the Urban Institute building in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Designed by Stanford White and built in 1922.

Urban Institute

1922

Silver gelatin photograph showing the storefront of the CXharles urban Trading Co., Ltd. Located at 48 Rupert Street in Soho, London, the company was set up after Urban left The Warwick Trading Co. in Holborn.

Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. storefront

1904

Photogravure print showing empoyees at work in the Charles Urban Trading Co., located at 48 Rupert Street, Soho, London.

Charles Urban Trading Co Ltd

1898

Rotogravure print showing two unidentified men building a set on the Hove premises of the Warwick Trading Co Ltd.

Warwick Trading Co Ltd, Hove Office

1899

Photogravure print showing Charles Urban's associate, George Albert Smith, at the Warwick Trading Co Ltd's premises in St. Ann's Well, Hove, 1899.

Warwick Trading Co Ltd, Hove Office

1899

Rotogravure print showing female employees in the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

Blair Film Works, Footscray

1898

Rotogravure print -- external shot of the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

Blair Film Works, Footscray

1898

Rotogravure print showing employees inside of the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

Blair Film Works, Footscray

1898

Rotogravure print showing the inside of the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

Blair Film Works, Footscray

1898

Rotogravure print employees standing on a veranda at the Warwick Trading Co. Ltd premises in Hove.

Warwick Trading Co Ltd, Hove Office

1899

Rotogravure print showing Mr. John J. Haddow, manager of the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

John J. Haddow, Blair Film Works

1898

Rotogravure print showing employees at work in the Warwick Trading Co. Ltd., High Holborn.

Warwick Trading Co Ltd

ca. 1897

Photograph showing a wall stocked with Biokam Combined Camera and Projector parts. The Biokam was invented by Alfred Darling in Brighton and manufactured in the UK from 1899, distributed by the Warwick Trading Co Ltd.

Stock of Biokams

1899

Photograph mounted on card. Image shows storefront of United Typewriter and Supplies Co., managed by John Doan.Six men are pictured in front of the store. One, presumably, is John Doan.

United Typewriter and Supplies Co.

1983

Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. storefront, photograph album. Made by Charles, Urban, London 1904

Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. storefront

1904

Sepia-toned photograph dated 1905, showing the construction of Georges Méliès' "Star Film" studios in Paris.

George Melies' 'Star Film' studio

1905

Sepia-toned photograph dated 1905, showing the construction of Georges Méliès' "Star Film" studios in Paris. Méliès is pictured on the far left.

George Melies' 'Star Film' studio

1905

Urban Bioscope camera with narrow sector shutter, perhaps not original. Through-the-film focusing. Folding optical frame finder. Film speed indicator 12-24 fps. 100 foot internal magazines. Film punch. Charles Urban Trading Company, 48 Rupert Street, Picadilly, 33 Passage de l'Opera, Paris.

Urban Bioscope 35mm Cine Camera

c. 1910

Silver gelatin photograph showing female employees in the Kineto-Film printing room laboratories, located on the 20th floor of the Masonic Building in New York City.

Kineto-Film printing room laboratories

circa 1917

Photograph showing a close-up of the Urban Institute building in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Designed by Stanford White and built in 1922.

Urban Institute

1922

Photograph showing the Warwick Trading Co Ltd stall at an unidentified trade exhibition. An Urban Bioscope is prominently on display.

Warwick Trading Co Ltd stall at trade exhibition

ca. 1898

Silver gelatin photograph showing workers in the studio at the Urban Spirograph Corporation in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Urban Spirograph Corporation

1919

Silver gelatin photograph showing J. Hickey (left), manager of the Kineto Department at Charles Urban's Natural Color Kinematograph Co., Ltd. premises in Wardour Street, Soho, London.

Natural Color Kinematograph Co., Ltd.

1909

Photograph a Board of Directors meeting at the Warwick Trading Co in High Holborn. Picture R-L: Mr. J.D. Baucus (Chairman), Mr. Herman Kimble (Director), and Charles Urban (Managing Director).

Board of Directors, Warwick Trading Co Ltd

ca. 1898

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