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Warner Brothers rise from silent era in Hollywood
Warner Brothers recounts building a film empire from a single print of The Great Train Robbery to distributing Open Your Eyes in World War I. The memoir details early distribution efforts, the MPPC Trust battle, San Francisco and Los Angeles moves, and securing funding for My Four Years in Germany which earned $130,000 for the brothers.
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Hollywood
Jack L. Warner
Dean Jennings
Random House
Niles
Warners
Warner Brothers
Sam
Albert
Harry
Pittsburgh
Motion Picture Exchange
The
Duquesne Amusement Company
Starr
Thomas Alva Edison
Vitagraph
Essanav
Selig
Lubin
Biograph
Kalem
Pathe and
Melies
Baltimore
Norfolk
Atlanta
San Francisco
Jack
St. Louis
Plains
Dot ‘Farley
Paul Revere
Missouri National
D. W. Griffith
Griffith
Europe
Carl Laemmie
Motion Picture
California
Los Angeles
Examiner
St. Francis Hotel
Mervyn LeRoy
Chicago
Louis Lurie
Pixie
Sid Grauman
Longfellow
Hollywood Boulevard
Doc
Salomon
Joe Blumenfeld
Frank Fay
William Gaxton
Lou Holtz
Marjorie Rambeau
Aileen Pringle
Hearst
James W. Gerard
United States
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Bronx
New York
Mark M. Dintenfass
Inkwell
Tintenfass
Kaiser Wilhelm
Arthur Brisbane
New Jersey
First National Pictures
Random House, Inc
J.L. Warner
King Features Syndicate