Charles Urban

Charles Urban
Urban in 1914
Born
Carl Urban

April 15, 1867
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
DiedAugust 29, 1942 (aged 75)
Brighton, England
Spouse
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(m. 1910; died 1937)​

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 motion picture colour system.

Silent nature documentary The Four Seasons (1921) by Charles Urban and Raymond Lee Ditmars, showing the cyclic changes in living nature through the four seasons with lyrical intertitles. Duration: 01:18:14. Intertitles in Dutch.