Edward Raymond Turner

Some of Turner's colour film experiments were carried out in the back garden of this house in Montague Road and showed his three young children, Alfred, Agnes and Wilfrid.

[4] He was buried 3 days later in the churchyard of St Leonard's parish church, Heston, Hounslow.

[5] Following his death, film producer, Charles Urban, who had been financing Turner, asked George Albert Smith to continue his work.

Turner is noted for his attempts to develop what is believed to be the first actually implemented colour motion picture system, initially with financial backing from Frederick Marshall Lee, then later from Charles Urban.

[6] The modern digital restoration allows present-day viewers to see a more successful combination of the three colour elements than was possible with the original mechanical projection system.

Still from footage recorded by Edward Turner in 1902
Turner's three-colour projector, 1902