Horsley travelled to his birthplace and around Europe. After returning to California, and investing in a failed exotic animal show, David Horsley went back into the motion picture business with David Horsley Studios and using the animals from the failed show, established the Bostock Jungle Films Company. By the spring of 1917, he had outfitted his new operations in Los Angeles at Main and Washington streets however a series of setbacks cost Horsley his entire fortune and left him in debt. David Horsley died in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. His son David Stanley Horsley (1906–1976) trained as a cinematographer and became an expert in special effects photography, working in the film industry for nearly thirty years. References External links Cinema pioneers American film producers British emigrants to the United States Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery 1873 births 1933 deaths People from Stanley, County Durham People from Bayonne, New Jersey Film directors from New Jersey American film production company founders NBCUniversal people