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Charles Urban (April 15, 1867 – August 29, 1942) was a German-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 ...
- Charles Urban Trading Company
The Charles Urban Trading Company ( CUTC) specialised in...
- Charles Urban Trading Company
1882 Urban leaves school, aged 15, changing his name to Charles, and becomes an errand boy for the Cincinnati News Company, being later employed by Perry and Morton, J.R. Hawley & Co., Perry and Morton again, and a year later Woodruff Cox & Co., all of Cincinnati. 1885 His father Joseph Urban leaves home and Charles takes over providing for the ...
Charles Urban, Motion Picture Pioneer. History. The most significant figure in the early British film industry was an American of German parentage who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1867. First establishing himself as a travelling book salesman, Charles Urban moved to Detroit in 1889 and ran a stationery shop before becoming a phonograph salesman.
Cinematographer, Film producer. Nationality: American. born in: Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, United States. 1895, Urban became manager of phonograph and Kinetoscope parlour; 1896, he acquired the rights to Edison Vitascope film projector for Michigan and joined Maguire and Baucus in New York.
Ada Aline Urban (15 May 1868 – 2 October 1937) was a British film company executive. She funded the Kinemacolor business established by her husband Charles Urban, helping it achieve global distribution as the first successful motion picture natural colour system.
William Friese-Greene (1855-1921) was Charles Urban's nemesis. A portrait photographer and keen inventor, he is best-known among all British film pioneers through the romantic account of his efforts towards the invention of moving pictures in the 1951 feature film The Magic Box, in which Friese-Greene was portrayed by Robert Donat.
