The Warwick Trading Company was formed in 1898 out of the British branch of the American firm Maguire and Baucus. It was the leading film producer in Britain at the turn of the century, specialising in actuality, travel and reportage. The managing director was Charles Urban

Charles Urban

Charles Urban was an Anglo-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War...

. He left the company in 1903. Between 1906 and 1909 it was headed by Will Barker

Will Barker

William George Barker Film producer, Director, Cinematographer and Entrepreneur.He took film-making in Britain from a low budget form of novel entertainment, to the heights of lavishly produced epics that were matched only by Hollywood for quality and style .His early career was that of a...

, and between 1913 and 1915 by the naturalist photographer Cherry Kearton

Cherry Kearton

Cherry Kearton was born in the small Yorkshire Dales village of Thwaite, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, and was one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers and writers. He first married Mary Burwood Coates, with whom he had a son, also named Cherry, and a daughter, Nina. He later...

, after which the company went into receivership.