In 1913, Lawrence Cowen converted a gas
works shop located on Tuileries Street, Hackney, in London into a single
stage studio.
Cowen called his company the Union Jack
Film Company and thus the studio became known as the Union Jack Studio.
In 1914, Cowen released Britains first full
length colour film The World, The Flesh and The Devil directed by F. Martin
Thornton. G. A. Smith's Natural Colour Kinematograph Company produced the
colour. Later that same year Smith was stopped from supplying the colour
by a court order won by William
Friese-Greene.
In 1920, Union Jack was closed and never reopened.
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