Brighton School

Pioneering group of British film-makers, working from Hove (adjacent to Brighton), on the south coast of England, from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The school was led by James Williamson (1855–1933) and George Albert Smith (1864–1959), who pioneered the use of close-ups and, with Charles Urban (1867–1947), invented Kinemacolor, the first commercially viable cinematographic colour process used in motion pictures.