With strong financial backing the company constructed the Twickenham Studios, then the largest in Britain, and began production of features, which were then displacing short films as the dominant form.
Two of the company's key early directors were Americans: Harold Shaw and George Loane Tucker.
[2] By 1915, a number of ambitious productions such as The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau were attempted.
However, that same year the studio had 130 employees whose wage bill was estimated to be £750 a week and it suffered heavy financial losses.
This was the final year of operation before London Film withdrew from production completely and Twickenham was sold off.