I am writing a business and cultural history of Warner Bros with emphasis on the period 1925-1950 when the Warner brothers owned and managed the company.
An important element in the Warner Bros. story is the role federal antitrust suits played in the company’s evolution. Many of the Senate and House hearings investigating FTC and Justice Department allegations about restraint of trade by the Hollywood oligopoly were available to me on microfiche at the University of Hawaii.
Gwen Sinclair, head of the UH documents division, introduced me to the CIS files and instructed me how to use Lexis-Nexis to locate the documents relavant to my study.
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My Grandfather worked for Warner Bros during this time as a Master Editor…George Roland!! Do you have information about him? I guess he created a 360 degree projector that he had a patent on and said that it was stolen from him….from Warner Bros. I have some very interesting documents!!
Just wondering…
Gina Finney
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Good luck finding information on your grandfather. It sounds like an interesting story!
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