PROGRESS FILM COMPANY
The company was founded in Manchester by Frank E Spring in 1918. It acquired the Shoreham Beach studios in the same year. Two films, Because and Democracy, were made in 1918 apparently before the move to Shoreham, where 17 productions were produced over the next four years. All films were distributed by Butcher's Film Service.
After Many Days (1919)
Cast: Irene Browne, Adeline Hayden Coffin, Bruce Gordon, Alice Russon
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan
Producer: Frank E Spring
35mm, 1,830m/6,000 ft, six reels.
All Men are Liars (1919)
Cast: Jessie Earle, Bruce Gordon, George Harrington, Alice Russon
Directed by Sidney Morgan from a novel by Joseph Hocking
Producer: Frank E Spring
35mm, 4,800 ft, five reels.
Sweet and Twenty (1919)
Cast: George Bellamy, Marguerite Blanche, Langhorne Burton, Nell Emerald, George Keene, Arthur Lennard
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a play by Basil Hood
Producer: Frank E Spring
35mm; 1,463m/4,800 ft, five reels.
The Black Sheep (1920)
Cast: Eva Balfour, George Bellamy, Marguerite Blanche, George Keene, Arthur Lennard
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a story by Ruby M Ayres
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham; 5,000 ft, five reels.
By Berwin Banks (1920)
Cast: Langhorne Burton, J Denton-Thompson, Judd Green, Arthur Lennard, Charles Levy, Eileen Magrath, Charles W Somerset
Written by Hugh Croise from a novel by Allen Raine
Directed by Sidney Morgan
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Shot at Shoreham; 4,900 ft, five reels.
The Children of Gibeon (1920)
Cast: Langhorne Burton, Charles Cullum, Alice De Winton, Arthur Lennard, Barbara McFarlane, Eileen Magrath, Joan Morgan
Written by Irene Miller from a novel by Walter Besant
Directed by Sidney Morgan
Producer: Frank E Spring
1,500m/5,000 ft, five reels
Lady Noggs: Peeress (1920)
Cast: George Bellamy, Yolande Duquette, Arthur Lennard, Joan Morgan, James Prior
Written by Cicely Harrington from a novel by Selwyn Jepson
Directed by Sidney Morgan
Shot at Shoreham; 1,500m/5,000 ft, five reels
Little Dorrit (1920)
Starring: Joan Morgan, Lady Maud Beerbohm Tree, Langhorne Burton
Cast: George Bellamy, Compton Coutts, J Denton-Thompson, Betty Doyle, George Foley, Judd Green, Arthur Lennard, Mary Lyle, Arthur Walcott
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from the novel by Charles Dickens
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham and the George Inn, Southwark; 6,858 ft, seven reels, 68 mins. A shortened (20 minute) 9.5mm version was released by Pathéscope Home Cinema in 1927.
A Man's Shadow (1920)
Cast: Langhorne Burton, J Denton-Thompson, Violet Graham, Arthur Lennard, Warris Linden, Gladys Mason, Sidney Paxton, Babs Ronald
Written by Robert Buchanan (from his play, adapted from the novel Roger la Honte by Jules Mary) and Sidney Morgan
Directed by Sidney Morgan
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham; 35mm, 1,676m/5,447 ft, six reels
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The Scarlet Wooing (1920)
Cast: Eva Balfour, George Bellamy, Nigel Black-Hawkins, Marguerite Blanche, Edward Godal, George Keene, Joan Morgan, Harry Newman, Arthur Walcott
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham; 35mm; 83 mins, 1,500m/5,000 ft, five reels.
Two Little Wooden Shoes (1920)
Starring: Joan Morgan, Langhorne Burton
Cast: Constance Backner, Faith Bevan, Maud Cressall, J Denton-Thompson, Ronald Power
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a story by Ouida
Shot at Shoreham; 35mm, 1,623m/5,275 ft; six reels
The Woman of the Iron Bracelets (1920)
Cast: Eva Balfour, George Bellamy, Marguerite Blanche, Alice De Winton, George Keene, Arthur Walcott
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a novel by Frank Barrett
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Producer: Frank E Spring
Crime drama, shot at Shoreham; 35mm; 83 mins, 1,500m/5,000 ft, five reels.
A Lowland Cinderella (1921)
Starring: Joan Morgan
Cast: Mary Carnegie, Mavis Clair, Nell Emerald, George Foley, Ralph Forbes, Eileen Grace, Charles Levey, Kate Phillips, Cecil Susands, Frances Wetherall
Produced and directed by Sidney Morgan
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Filmed around Shoreham and in the Metropole Hotel in Brighton as well as at the Shoreham Beach studio. Trade shown in December 1921, released 27 November 1922. 35mm, 1,615m/
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921)
Starring: Fred Groves, Pauline Peters
Cast: Nell Emerald, Joan Morgan, Warwick Ward
Produced and directed by Sidney Morgan from the novel by Thomas Hardy
Producer: Frank E Spring
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Partly filmed at the Shoreham Beach studio but mainly in Steyning, West Sussex, with other scenes in Dorchester, this 65-minute adaptation was made with the collaboration of the author, Thomas Hardy, himself.
Moth and Rust (1921)
Starring Sybil Thorndike
Cast: George Bellamy, Langhorne Burton, Phyllis Le Grand, Malvina Longfellow, Ellen Nicholls, Cyril Raymond, Malcolm Tod
Produced and directed by Sidney Morgan from a novel by Mary Cholmondeley
Camera: Stanley J Mumford
Shot at Shoreham; 4,796 ft, five reels.
Fires of Innocence (1922)
Starring: Joan Morgan
Cast: Bobby Andrews, Nell Emerald, Marie Illington, Arthur Lennard, Madge Tree
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a novel by George Stevenson
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham; 35mm; 1,430m/4,648 ft, five reels
The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922)
Cast: Lewis Dayton, Nell Emerald, Forrester Harvey, Arthur Lennard, Charles Levey, Joan Morgan, Pauline Peters, A Harding Steerman, Warwick Ward
Written and directed by Sidney Morgan from a novel by S R Crockett
Producer: Frank E Spring
Shot at Shoreham; 35mm; 1,812m/5,889 ft; six reels
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