Originally had a chemist shop and photographic business in Hove,
England; very near G. A. Smith's St. Anne's Well Pleasure Garden
Originally processed film for other early movie makers, before starting
production of his own features.
In 1908, he invented a device with which exhibitors could make their own intertitles. In 1910, he patented a projector which could intersperse slide titles into the films it showed.