Charles Urban (14 April 1867, Cincinnati - 29 August 1942, Brighton) was an Anglo-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War. He was a pioneer of the documentary, educational, propaganda and scientific film, as well as being the producer of the world's first successful motion picture colour system. Wikipedia
Charles Urban was not a film director, but as the most important producer of films in Britain in the pre-1914 period, he wielded considerable influence on the overall direction of early British film. He was born on 15 April 1867 in Cincinnati of German i www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/514893/
Urban's most notable professional association was, however, with G.A. Smith , the Hove pioneer. Urban first handled Smith's films, then employed him as an agent and engineer, and in 1903 directed Smith to work on an improvement to the Lee and Turner colo www.victorian-cinema.net/urban.htm
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