 Hepworth's entire back catalogue of 2,000 films were destroyed, a disaster in which 80% of British films made between 1900 and 1929 were lost.In 1926, the Studio was purchased by Archibald Nettlefold, and renamed as "Nettlefold Studios", and began producing comedy silent films, until it was upgraded to sound production with the advent of sound film in the early 1930s.The 1930s saw the Studio mainly producing what were known in the industry as "Quota Quickies" as part of the Government's "Screen Quotas" programme to try to protect England's cinematic production industry from the rapidly developing commercial threat from the United States of America's Hollywood production centre.