The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-07
Charles Urban, the Inventor
of Natural Color PhOt0g-
raphy, 7ells About Them.
When You See a MOUing Pic
ture Ofa Breaking Wave You
Can Hear the Roar and
SUish.
Voices of Persons in the
Scenes VIII BE Heard, He
Declares.
Bv SOPHIE Irene Loeb.


Especial Corrspopdencs TO The Evening WORLDLY
LONDON. Aug. 3l.-when met
Charles Urban. who has been credited
with producing the eighth wonder OF
the world"-naturai color photography
] found a very modest man with very
blue eyes. lie told me simply ahe story
Of his twelve years persistent work
In the production OF his invention. And
now. even with that same remarkable
belief In the seemingly impossible, not
satisfied with producing moving figures,
breaking waves. opening buds. growth
OF insects. birds and beasts in their orig
inal natural state and color. he wants
TO hear these things as well as he sits
looking at them In motion. SO that you
and may also not only see but hear
a. we'll
"Yss, Il II possible" said l4r.
Urban, "and presume were I to
say that ! hope TO photograph
sounds they would say that I was
ont OF my m1ud. Dut, to put II
more eoouratsly, In the near
future w win 10 photogrsphins
vibrations caused b. sound wave.
That y to say, that whom you see
moving pictures Just % every ng-
urs lives. sounds, moves and has
ats being. 20 IL will Be repro
duosd. I'VE have already success
fully photographed heat wavss.)
so. not by any mechanical imitation.
but Just as II IL in pictures OF real life.
simultaneously, not only the pictures,
but the sounds which occurred at the
time the picture was taken.
Tn word. you will see what you
will hear and hear what you will see.
SO that II, for example. you Are look
ing at a moving natural color picture
Of scene you will hear the sounds Of
that scene Just as though you were
there. and II will have to he true to
nature. Just as the color pictures are.
u there are people moving about and
talking. you will hear their voices.
SONGS OF BIRDS WILL BE RE-
PRODUCED.
You will hear the reproduction OF
the songs of the birds. the sigh OF the
wind. tho swish OF the sea and the
human voice. In fact. anything that
can be seen and heard will be repro
duced at one and the same time, just
as It occurs in life. l wish I could ex-
plain II to you" went on Mr. Urban,
who had already drawn several dia-
grams on a piece OF paper In making
illustrations OF what he had hoped to
do, but In order to do that I would
have to tell you the exact process which
Is now nearing completion. but It win
not be too complicated.
How soon do you expect your in
vention will be completed" ! asked.
~ hope quite soon," answered
M. Urban, 'sad In this just ~
In the others We have TO step
aside from the beaten path. For
example, In our production OF ma
tural color the world OF science
insisted that you could work with
only the three oolors red, blue
| ana grssn-that . complete color
scheme was practically impossi-
bic without these. Therefore to
seemingly defy this ttms-worn
rule would have meant disaster,
which was exactly what We ala In
order 70 get our present result.
so that We take Just red and green
to produce all our color. In the ver-
nacular. we Just broke the sytsem.'
Perhaps It may interest you to know
how trifling thing sets one to think.
ing In the matter OF production.
GOT A TIP FROM A COMIC POST
) CARD.
1T was while | was working upon
this invention with my assistant, Mr.
Turner. and machine after machine was
made to no practical purpose and he
had almost given up In despair Later
Mr.. Smith. my partner In this process
| was similarly dlsheartened. was n
r Paris one day and casually purchased
from n vendor a comic post card which
had colored transparent disc owe
Z II that produced a color effect at tn,
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