Charles Urban

Filmes

The Four Seasons
Editor
A nature documentary depicting the variety of changes undergone by plants and animals as the seasons of the year change. A deer is shown shedding his antlers, then growing new ones, while other examples of flora and fauna go through corollary changes.
The Battle of the Somme
Editor
A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.
Britain Prepared
Director
Fight for the Dardanelles
Editor
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps to assist understanding. Small cardboard cut-outs show the deployment of men and ships. Intertitles explain tactics, and shelling explosions are illustrated by clouds of cotton wool.
Fight for the Dardanelles
Producer
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps to assist understanding. Small cardboard cut-outs show the deployment of men and ships. Intertitles explain tactics, and shelling explosions are illustrated by clouds of cotton wool.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Producer
An intensely unhappy woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer refuses to go through with it, leaving each baby with its proper family. When the babies are grown, the man from the poor family (who has been led to believe that he did come from the rich family) goes to the house of the other and throws him out. The remainder of the film deals with the frustrations of mistaken identity.
The Pageant Procession
Producer
From With Our King and Queen Through India
Varieties of Sweet Peas
Producer
An early British Kinemacolor short, in which delicate tones and shades of color are beautifully reproduced in examples of highly cultivated sweet pea flowers.
The Aerial Anarchists
Producer
Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.
Nubia, Wadi Halfa and the Second Cataract
Producer
Kinemacolor
Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage
Producer
Kinemacolor
A Run with the Exmoor Staghounds
Producer
Kinemacolor
Feeding Poultry at Prowse Jones Farm
Producer
Kinemacolor
Building a British Railway: Constructing the Locomotive
Producer
Documentary short released in 1911.
Banks of the Nile
Producer
With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, black-haired women rock back and forth, bursting out laughing and showing the first signs of going into a state of trance. Never-before filmed gestures and faces of the people of the Nile succeed one another, uprooted to an unknown, magical world. The Banks of the Nile is one of the first experiments of film in colour that uses the Kinemacolor process.
Banks of the Nile
Director
With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, black-haired women rock back and forth, bursting out laughing and showing the first signs of going into a state of trance. Never-before filmed gestures and faces of the people of the Nile succeed one another, uprooted to an unknown, magical world. The Banks of the Nile is one of the first experiments of film in colour that uses the Kinemacolor process.
The Birth of a Flower
Producer
"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Monthly Film Bulletin, November 1955.
The Aerial Submarine
Producer
Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their escape by taking to the air.
Fording the River
Producer
Kinemacolor
Lake Garda, Italy
Producer
Kinemacolor
The Harvest
Producer
Kinemacolor
The Coronation of Edward VII
Producer
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
The Coronation of Edward VII
Director
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.