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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 neighbourhood theatres to which films moved when their initial box office receipts dwindled).
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by First National Pictures. 1917. Release Date Title Notes June 23, 1917: On Trial: extant.
B. Babbitt (1934 film) Babe Comes Home; Back Pay (1930 film) Back to God's Country (1919 film) The Bad Man (1923 film) The Bad Man (1930 film) The Balloonatic
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1918–1929. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures".
The financial successes of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool enabled Warner Bros. to purchase a majority interest in First National in September 1928 and it began moving its productions into the Burbank lot. The First National studio, as it was then known, became the official home of Warner Bros.–First National Pictures with four sound ...
Curtis Means/Ace Pictures/Shutterstock; Jacqueline Romano/January Images/Shutterstock The Australian actresses later transitioned to The Originals, on which Holt took on the role of Rebekah ...
Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president and declared it is time to set aside petty differences and embark on a new era of responsibility to repair the country and its image abroad ...
Salvation Nell is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures. It was directed by Kenneth Webb and stars Pauline Starke. The film is based on a successful 1908 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon that starred Minnie Maddern Fiske.