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8 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
Mr, Stripling. Mr. Warner, you are here before the Committee on Un-American Activities in response to a subpena served upon you on September 29, 1947; is that correct?
Mr. Wakner. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. What is your occupation?
Mr. Warner. In charge of production of Warner Bros, studios at Burbank, Calif.
Mr. Stripling. Are you a vice president of Warner Bros. ?
Mr. Warner. I am.
Mr. Stripling. How long have you been associated with the motionpicture industry?
Mr. Warner. Approximately forty-odd years.
Mr. Wood. I didn't get that last statement.
Mr. Warner. Forty-odd years.
Mr. Stripling. ]\Ir. Warner, in what various capacities have you been associated with the motion-picture industry?
Mr. Warner. I would say writer, director, producer.
Mr. Stripling. When was the corporation known as Warner Bros. first founded?
Mr. Warner. I just can't remember the exact date.
Mr. Stripling. Approximately when?
]Mr. Warner. I believe it was 1922 — or between 1922 and 1926. Before tliat it was a copartnership of the four brothers.
Mr. Stripling. Do you recall how many people you employed at the time the corporation was first founded ?
Mr. Warner. I haven't any recollection. No ; I don't know.
Mr. Stripling. Are you familiar with how many people are employed at the present time ?
Mr. Warner. I would say approximately 25,000 throughout the world.
Mr. Stripling. Throughout the world.
Mr. Warner. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. About how many pictures does your company produce a year ? That is, on an average.
Mr. Warner. At present?
Mr. Stripling. Yes.
Mr. Warner. Twenty-four. In addition, what we term "short subjects," and we now have a news release, the Warner-Pathe News Release.
Mr. Stripling. When you say 20
Mr. Warner. Twenty-four full-length pictures; 50 or 60 short subjects ; and 100 or more news releases a year.
Mr. Stripling. Could you give us the figure of — say, for any time during the past 5 years — the gross income of Warner Bros.?
Mr. Warner. I am not familiar with the gross income. That was not my end of the business — other than reading the reports.
INIr. Stripling. Is Warner Bros, one of the major studios in Hollywood ?
Mr. Warner. One of the large studios. I don't go along with the word "major."
Mr. Stripling. Would it be one of the four largest?
INIu. Warner. I would say it was one of the large studios in Hollywood.