Maj. Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, MBE, FRPS

Marriages Jun 1916

• Brackenbury Angela E Klein Hampstead 1a 1515
• Klein Adrian B Brackenbury Hampstead 1a 1515

Adrian Bernard Leopold Klein was born in London in 1892, son of the pre-eminent Victorian and Edwardian music proffesor and critic Herman Klein (born in Norwich in 1856 to Jewish Latvian parents of German origin). His mother was Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (born on 11 March 1872 in Melbourne, Australia), a prolific author who wrote under several names (using the surnames Dealtry and Groom of her successive husbands after her divorce from Klein in 1901). His parents had married in 1890.

Adrian Klein also became a writer, he was an artist and wrote books on photography and cinematography. After serving as an officer in the British Army (he became a Major in 1921), he became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne to emphasize his English nationality.

In 1921 he designed a Colour Projector that consisted of a large spectroscope which dispersed spectral lights onto a cinema-type screen - projection was controlled by a keyboard. In 1932, Klein (as he was still known as then) gave a demonstration of the new instrument called a "colour organ" which "was able to project at the will of the player every possible coloured tone in any succession, order or speed". Klein performed many concerts accompanied by music, improvising from a range of over 150 combinations of coloured lights.

Adrian's younger sister Denise Naomi Klein (1897-1985) also became a writer, better known as Denise Robins.

His works:

4 books: 3-D kinematography and new screen techniques (first published in 1954) Colour cinematography (first published in 1951) Colour films (first published in 1963) Colour films, the facts (first published in 1962)

Films (as a Director): Colour on the Thames (1935)