Sealight was formed from Francis Leonard
Lyndhurst taking control of Sunny South Film Co. in 1915. Sunny
South filmed in the open air around Shoreham By Sea and Shoreham Fort. Lyndhurst
wanted to move to more progressive films so he built a huge glass greenhouse
and turned it into a film studio called Shoreham Studios.
The
studio measured 45x75 and had 30 foot of headroom to take advantage of the
tremendous weather there. Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War I curtailed
any progress in the studio.
In 1916, Lyndhurst sold Shoreham
to the Olympic Kine Trading Company, again because of the war, nothing was
produced at the studio until it was purchased in 1918 by Sidney Morgan with
The Progress Film Company.
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