In 1918, Thomas Welsh and George Pearson
formed Welsh-Pearson Film Company. They then built Craven Park Studio for
their productions. Craven Park was tranformed from a small school in Harlesden,
Brent into a very small film studio with a single dark stage.
Thomas Welsh had been the General Manager
for Gaumont. George Pearson was a school teacher who had started in films
with Pathe in 1913 and had moved up to director.
Welsh and Pearson produced numerous films.
When they needed to shoot crowd scenes, they had to go to Islington to shoot
them because their studio was so small.
Welsh and Pearson utilized Craven Park until
1926 when it was closed because labor strike and high production costs.
They continued making films until 1933 when Welsh retired from the film
industry. Pearson, always the teacher at heart, continued training young
film-makers until 1956.
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