demonstration from early 1909 as far afield as Paris and New York, for which Smith was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Society of Arts. In 1910 Urban founded the Natural Colour Kinemacolor Company, which successfully used the process to produce over 100 short features at its studios in Hove and Nice, until it was put out of business by a 1914 patent suit filed by William Friese-Greene, which ended Smith's film career. Later life and death In the late 1940s he was rediscovered by the British film community, being made a Fellow of the British Film Academy in 1955. Smith died in Brighton on 17 May 1959. Hove Museum has a permanent display on Smith and Williamson. Selected filmography The Haunted Castle (1897) Making Sausages (1897)Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer (1897)The X-Rays (1897)The Miller and the Sweep (1898)Photographing a Ghost (1898)Santa Claus (1898)The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)Grandma Threading her Needle (1900)Spiders on a Web (1900)The Old Maid's Valentine (1900)The House That Jack Built (1900)Let Me Dream Again (1900)The Inexhaustible Cab (1901)The Death of Poor Joe (1901)Mary Jane's Mishap (1903)The Sick Kitten (1903)Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906)Two Clowns (1906)Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs (1908)A Visit to the Seaside (1908) References Bibliography Hall, Trevor H. (1964). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney''. Gerald Duckworth. External links History of film industry in Brighton History of Brighton that includes the claim that Smith invented the closeup First Colour Moving Pictures Discovered: The First Colour Moving Pictures Made by Lee and Turner (Restored film video) September 2012. 1864 births 1959 deaths People from Hove Parapsychologists British hypnotists Photographers from Sussex Cinema pioneers British cinema pioneers British film directors Horror film directors English inventors Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Telepaths Articles containing video clips