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First National Pictures 1923-1967. | Facebook. Log In. Forgot Account? This page is for fans of classic Warner Bros films and those who are interested in learning about them. Only Warner Bros films are discussed on this...
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The First National Exhibitors' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first-run cinema chains in the United States. It eventually controlled over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them first-run houses (as opposed to the less lucrative second-run or neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their initial box office receipt...
The financial success of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool enabled Warner Bros. to purchase a majority interest in First National in September 1928. Warner Bros. held 42,000 shares of common stock out of 72,000 outstanding shares while Fox Pictures held 21,000 shares; 12,000 shares were publicly held. Warner Bros. acquired access to First Nation...
Films as a Warner Bros. subsidiary
As a subsidiary of Warner Bros., First National Pictures, Inc., continued to be a copyright claimant and trademark on motion pictures through 1936. Notable examples of First National Pictures titles are listed below.
Other articles where First National Pictures, Inc. is discussed: history of film: Pre-World War I American cinema: …and Nicholas Schenck in 1919; First National Pictures, Inc., a circuit of independent exhibitors who established their own production facilities in Burbank, California, in 1922; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., founded by Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner in 1923; and ...
Background. First National was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc. The company expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them, and eventually to producing them as a movie studio. It later merged with Warner Bros. Pictures.
Feb 21, 2023 · First National Pictures was a US film production and distribution company founded in 1917 as a theatre association. In 1924, it became a motion picture production company and an important studio. Control was passed to Warner Bros. in 1928, which completely absorbed it in 1929. Some films were branded First National Pictures until 1936 when the company was dissolved.
The Girl in the Taxi. Distribution [4] April 1, 1921. Jim the Penman. incimplete (reel 5 missing). Distribution [4] April 1, 1921. The Passion Flower. Distribution . though there is a bit of deterioration in the first scene and a "lapse of continuity" near the end of this copy [4]
The chained globe looks like a model, with the text FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES on it. The words A First National Picture are above it. FX/SFX: The words "THE END" fading into the company name. Music/Sounds: None. Availability: Rare. It was seen on The Lost World (1925) and cartoon Stomach Problems (1927). Editor's Note: None. 3rd Logo (1926-1936)
