[3] These were silent films based on well known tunes such as Abide with Me and On the Banks of Allan Water, designed to be shown with live singers providing a musical accompaniment.

The huge success of the film led to the release of The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks but Malins' work at the front was hampered by increasing ill health.

In it Malins described his own feelings towards the Battle of the Somme's initial reception in Britain: "I really thought that some of the dead scenes would offend the British public.

[7] The Golden Web had a plot based around the discovery of a gold mine,[8] but the film failed, and the company went into liquidation in August the following year.

[9] Malins made at least half a dozen features and several more shorts with London-born actress Gladys Mary Peterkin Mitchell (1892-1986; "Ena Beaumont"), a partner at Garrick to whom he was briefly married.

[10] In 1922, Malins was involved in an attempt to fly around the world, in a team including Wing Commander Norman Macmillan and led by Major Wilfred Blake.

[15] Together with Jimmy Baxter, the pair set out from London travelling through Europe, the Middle and Far East, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and San Francisco to New York.

En route, Malins gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia[16] and "watched D.W. Griffiths [sic] at work directing scenes in an old Spanish setting".