Warner Brothers incorporated is one one of the worlds largest producers of film, television and entertainment.The company was started by four brothers from Poland and an ambition they had.
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Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner are the founders of Warner Brothers as we know it today. After leaving Poland they went to Ontario, Canada where they first started an exhibition business. They acquired a projector in which they went to the states and opened up their first theater, the Cascade in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Of course they where silent pictures for the time period in which was 1903.In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company (the precursor to Warner Bros. Pictures) to distribute films.Within a few years this led to the distribution of pictures across a four-state area. In 1912 Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert Warner and their auditor and now controller Paul Ashley Chase handled finance and distribution in New York. In 1923, they formally incorporated as Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
