Walturdaw Company Limited

[2] According to IMDb, Walturdaw started making films in 1901, their first being The Life and Death of Queen Victoria.

[1] Walturdaw was the sales agent for a number of continental film companies, including German, Hungarian, Italian and Russian ones.

[3] A number of these films were made in a studio in Sir Edward Watkin's pleasure grounds at Wembley Park, north-west London, after Walturdaw took over and adapted the old Variety Hall, a large wooden variety theatre, there in 1907.

There was one member, however, whose inclinations were photographically inclined, and so we took lease of Wembley Park and erected there something novel in the way of outdoor studios – a revolving platform, which allowed us to put up three sets of scenery at a time, when the wind allowed it, and each could be brought to the camera as required.

Ernest Howard took charge of this department – his lieutenants being J.B. McDowell and E. Bloomfield – these latter were our cameramen.”[8] The company made a net profit of £1,160/0/8d in 1911 to 1912, but although profits continued in the first years of the First World War it made a net loss in 1916.