Show AMERICAN INVENTOR Of COLOR PICTURES At t the tho Colonial theatre the durbar in is now b being in presented present present- ed ed cd giving givin an accurate reproduction in motion and natural color of the events of the thc crowning of f Kin King Geor George o V. V and Queen Mar Mary of England as emperor and empress of India Wb When n something n new and beautiful across tho the vision sion of the public especially the American public great curiosity is iM manifested to know about the man who invented it 2nd nd sent it forth r The Tho inventor JI of animated pictures in natural colors is Charles Urban an nn American boru born in Grand Rapids Mi Mich h. h who for the th last fifteen years has called London his home In Iii En England la l Mr Urban met a man manof manof manof of s science Albert Smith and the two formed a partnership Mr Ir Urban was the mechanical head of the concern while Mr Smith attended to the tho scientific i. i part After experimenting e. for eight years ears to get act ct natural color photo photography photograph raph tho idea struck these men to divide tho the spectrum into half the three primary colors being red blue and aud yellow the they divided di the three throe colors into half using us us- ing in half of the yellow rellow with the blue making makin a blue green and ancl tho the other half of the yellow with the red making a deep oran orange o. o Then a color rotary filter wan thought of This Thi consisted of f HU nil skeleton wheel having haing one ono segment filled in with green dyed gelatins gelatine and tho Iho other half halt of the filter filled with red gelatine elatine rotary filter was placed between the tho lens and the shutter on the camera which is it similar to that used for black and white work When the pictures are are projected on the screen by the machine which is of special special ape ape- cial make male this thi color filter fitter is ij placed between the light and the tho film in other words the tho light bight ht in iu going through h the tho filter onto auto the film brings out tho the colors that have hao been photographed Photo t thereon horcon The film hatch is not colored col cal ored bein the same pame R. R as th the ordinary black and white in ill this respect The negative o films film rooi consist t of images in pairs one oue bring being tho record of tho thc red reil and tho the other of the tho green of th the objects ob oh- photographed In tho the color the tho two pictures arc re not superimposed on the screen at the sama caine nt but the pi picture turo is pr projected first through the red Ted and thon through h the green arcen filter at a R rate of speed pe d rang ranJ in ing g from two thirty to la fort forty exposures to tho the se second ond against sixteen en on th tho ordinary lla black k and anti white hito machine Charles Charl s Urban has caught au ht nature napping with this hi his wonderful proc process and it ina may bo be loft left for future futuro generations generations genera genera- to realize tho the full importance of this remarkable invention in Men en and find wonton women yet vet unborn inborn by the marie mae of a alit i lit lIttle box and md a I roll ron of oC film will be enabled en on- abbed to witness the marvels of or a hundred rl years parR before their a age c in all the s anti and In movements of rea real life f |