20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1916
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4 days ago · Unsure if audiences would respond (and if the censors would let the idea happen), Carl Laemmle Jr pursued his vision. Turning to Tod Browning who by this time has made his fortune directing silent films (around 50 at this point), they worked on an adaptation of Dracula – the first ‘talkie’ Horror movie.
5 days ago · Laemmle (pronounced lem-lee) was one of the first entrepreneurs to buy up nickelodeons and create a film-distribution network (which involved major legal battles with Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the motion picture camera) before merging his operation with several others to create Universal.
1 day ago · Universal was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour. One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons, and calculating the day's takings.
- US$11.622 billion (2022)
- Motion pictures
1 day ago · Our own parent company, Comcast, was co-founded by two Jewish Americans, Julian Brodsky and Daniel Aaron (who was a refugee from Nazi Germany), as were subsidiaries NBC, by David Sarnoff, and Universal Pictures, by Carl Laemmle. Yet this rich tradition of Jewish American accomplishment is paired with the never-ending threat of antisemitism.
1 day ago · Kurz vor der Verleihung des Carl Laemmle Produzentenpreises in Laupheim kritisieren 16 Verbände der Filmindustrie den Preisträger, den TV- und Spielfilm-Produzenten Martin Moszkowicz.
6 hours ago · Peggy Moore, 60, and Hope Wood, 48, were passengers in a Jeep pickup truck that collided Friday with a Chrysler sedan on Highway 76, near Fallbrook, killing them, NBC Bay Area reported. The 60 ...
4 days ago · When he was preparing to shoot his wrenching anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front from the point of view of German schoolboys who become soldiers, Universal co-founder and president Carl Laemmle pleaded with him for a "happy ending." Milestone replied, "I've got your happy ending.
