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  1. First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc. , an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain.

  2. 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.

  3. First National Pictures is a defunct American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theater owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain.

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    September 23, 1917
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    December 3, 1917
    Distribution
    December 23, 1917
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    March 10, 1918
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  4. Throughout the 1920s, Paramount, MGM, First National, and other studios had conducted ambitious campaigns of vertical integration by ruthlessly acquiring first-run theatre chains. It was primarily in response to those aggressive maneuvers that Warner Brothers and Fox sought to dominate smaller exhibitors by providing prerecorded musical ...

  5. Jun 18, 2024 · 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.

  6. First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain.

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  8. Apr 12, 2024 · First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc. , an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain.

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