The Ideal Film Company (often known as Ideal Films or simply Ideal) was a British film production and distribution company that operated between 1911 and 1934. The company, based in Soho, was started by the two Jewish brothers Harry Moses (1875-17 August 1951) and Simon (1877-26 June 1950) Rowson, born Rosenbaum. They were born in Manchester, where their father, an immigrant from Suwałki in Congress Poland, worked as a butcher.