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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
Bioscope projector

Bioscope projector

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

Warwick Trading Co Ltd

ca. 1897
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 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
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
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
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
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 studio and laboratory spaces at the Urban Spirograph Corporation building in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Urban Spirograph Corporation

1919
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
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
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
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
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
Rotogravure print showing female employees in 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 -- external shot 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 showing Mr. John J. Haddow, manager of the Blair Film Works in Footscray, near Sidcup.

John J. Haddow, Blair Film Works

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

Warwick Trading Co Ltd, Hove Office

1899
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
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
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
Three photographs (two rotogravure prints) showing the manufacture of Urban Bioscopes.

Charles Urban Trading Co Ltd

1897
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
Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. storefront, photograph album. Made by Charles, Urban, London 1904

Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. storefront

1904
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 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
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
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
Silver gelatin photograph showing the cocktail bar and seating area inside Theatre Edouard VII, Paris. Home of Kinemacolor from 1913-1914. Built by Charles Urban, furnished and decorated by Maples-London.

Cocktail bar inside Theatre Edouard VII

1913-1914
Silver gelatin photograph showing the exterior of Theatre Edouard VII, Paris. Home of Kinemacolor from 1913-1914. Built by Charles Urban, furnished and decorated by Maples-London.

Exterior of Theatre Edouard VII

1913-1914
Silver gelatin photograph showing the exterior of Theatre Edouard VII, Paris. Home of Kinemacolor from 1913-1914. Built by Charles Urban, furnished and decorated by Maples-London.

Exterior of Theatre Edouard VII

1913-1914
Silver gelatin photograph showing the exterior of Theatre Edouard VII, Paris. Home of Kinemacolor from 1913-1914. Built by Charles Urban, furnished and decorated by Maples-London.

Exterior of Theatre Edouard VII

1913-1914
Silver gelatin photograph showing employees inspecting Kinemacolor films at Kinemacolor House, Paris. Kinemacolor reels could hold up to 2000 feet of film.

Inspecting 'Kinemacolor' films

1913-1914
Silver gelatin photograph showing the interior lobby of Theatre Edouard VII, Paris. Home of Kinemacolor from 1913-1914. Built by Charles Urban, furnished and decorated by Maples-London.

Lobby of Theatre Edouard VII

1913-1914