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Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, ... handled finance and distribution in New York City. ... Schlesinger's cartoon unit in 1944 and renamed it Warner Bros ...
Founded: 501 Seventh Avenue New York City, New York, United States. [1 ... Warner Brothers went public in 1961 and was soon generating revenues in excess of $100 ...
Not only did this result in the company re-entering the cable television industry as a national programmer, but Warner Bros. also regained the rights to their pre-1950 [34] [35] film library, which by then had been owned by Turner (the films are still technically held by Turner, but Warner Bros. is responsible for sales and distribution), [36 ...
On July 1, 1944, Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. for $700,000, which renamed the company Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., and Edward Selzer (who by Jones' and Freleng's accounts had no sense of humor or admiration of cartoons), was appointed by Warner Bros. as the new head of the cartoon studio after Schlesinger retired. In September ...
Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; [1] August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-born American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.
Albert Warner (born Aaron Abraham Wonsal, [1] July 23, 1884 [2] – November 26, 1967) was an American film executive who was one of the founders of Warner Bros. He established the production studio with his brothers Harry, Sam, and Jack L. Warner.
Leon Schlesinger (/ ˈ ʃ l ɛ s ɪ n dʒ ər / SHLESS-in-jər; May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) [1] was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. [2] He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers.
Warner Music Group Corp., [6] commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Group (SMG).