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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. Expanding from exhibiting movies to distributing them, the company ...
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]
Release DateTitleNotesJanuary 6, 1920Distribution [1]January 15, 1920incomplete. Distribution [1]January 25, 1920incomplete, 2 reels remain missing ...February 1920lost. Distribution [1]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.
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. Expanding from exhibiting movies to distributing them, the company reincorporated in 1919 as Associated First ...
Release DateTitleNotesSeptember 23, 1917DistributionDecember 3, 1917DistributionDecember 23, 1917DistributionMarch 10, 1918DistributionFeb 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.
Dark Victory. April 20, 1939. Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes ...
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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 ...
