The Clarendon Film Company was a British film studio founded by Percy Stow and Henry Vassal Lawley.[1][2]
The studio was founded in 1904 in Croydon, primarily as a movie camera equipment company, and began to make short films as a side-line. It was named after its original location off Clarendon Road, and later moved to Limes Road.[3][4] Among the films made by the company was The Tempest (1908), adapted for the screen by Langford Reed
In 1909 it took part in the Paris Film Congress, a failed attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the MPPC in the United States.[citation needed]
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Further reading
- Burton, Alan; Chibnall, Steve (11 July 2013). Historical Dictionary of British Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8026-9.