Early Film Pioneers: Charles Urban: Kinemacolor: SWS
Thu 23 Sept
|Arno's Vale
This programme of early film shorts produced by Charles Urban features live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and a recorded introduction by Luke McKernan.
Time & Location
23 Sept 2021, 19:00
Arno's Vale, 337 Paintworks, Arno's Vale, Bristol BS4 3AR, UK
About the Event
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To see the real world in films was a pleasurable thrill for cinema audiences at the beginning of the twentieth century, and as a result, the production of non-fiction films reached an all-time high, both in terms of quality and quantity. This special screening gives us a rare chance to see those films up on the big screen.
Charles Urban (1867-1942) was not a 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 cinema. A renowned figure in his time, Urban was a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news; a fervent advocate of the value of film as an educative force; and a controversial but important innovator of film propaganda in wartime. Today he has remained a name in film…