[1] Along with his cousin Monty Wicks, Hepworth created the filmmaking production company Hepwix, and began producing actualities, which were newsreel-like short documentary films.
During the early stages of that war, the studios were used to make films featuring the American star Florence Turner.
[4] During the Second World War, the studio's buildings were requisitioned by the government and used as a storage facility for the war effort, and the Vickers-Armstrong Aircraft Company built two new aircraft construction hangars on the site in order to reinforce and disperse its production capacity, following damage by enemy bombing attacks at its factory site at Brooklands, Weybridge, on 4 September 1940.
Sapphire Films productions at the facility, all shown on ITV, began with The Adventures of Robin Hood (143 episodes) in the late 1950s for Lew Grade's ITC.
Other Sapphire/ITC television series were also produced on the site, including The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), The Buccaneers (1956), Sword of Freedom (1957) and The Four Just Men (1959).
Today, all that remains of the studio is the power generating house, originally built by Hepworth, which was converted into a theatre in 1925.