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464 Men and Money Behind Pictures
Pictures, with Woolf as its managing director). He transformed this tlien small company into one of the most important in Great Britain.
Theatres — renting — the next logical step was the production of pictures. And Maxwell formed British National Pictures, with studios at Elstree. The company was the forerunner of the powerful British International Pictures. When British International was young, British films were in a bad way. B.I. P. was one of the few companies to produce anything worth while. It did more than any other company to put British films on a higher footing than for many a long year. And now British International has its own allied chain of theatres, the A. B.C. Circuit.
Adolphe Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, Jack and Harry Warner, Samuel Goldwyn and many others have equally romantic stories to tell of fortunes amassed from the screen. Their histories are equal only in interest to the stories of the film companies themselves. Countless companies are involved one with another, and many of the producing companies are now owners of big groups of cinemas.
Here is a chart which gives an example of how many companies can ultimately be linked up.
WESTINGHOUSE GENERAL ELECTRIC
RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA
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BROADCASTING COMMUNICATIONS | TALKING MACHINE PHOTOPHOXE
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ORPHEUM CIRCUIT RADIO PICTURES LTD
This talking picture enterprise is known generally as the Radio Company.'
Similarly, there is the Western Electric Company. This descends, via the Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Electrical Research Products Inc., from the American Telephone and Telegraph ; it is also connected with the International Telephone and Telegraph, the Standard Telephone and Telegraph, the Standard Telephone and Cables, and, if you care to pick your way carefully through the various interesting ramifications, with Warner Brothers and Vitaphone !
The Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer concern has no fewer than about 140 separate corporations headed under the parent company. These include numerous producing and distributing companies, the Culver Export Corporation, and about thirty affiliated companies ; the Robbins Music Corporation ; and nearly one hundred corporations covering vaudeville productions, real estate, and other activities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer itself is the offspring of several companies.
First of all, there is Metro. This producing company was organized in 1915. It became an influential one, with theatres of its own, and was taken over by Loew's Incorporated, the giant theatre organization, in 1920.