Talk:First National Pictures

Surviving films

An awful lot of the films listed in the article have been lost to time, including the company's first and last films - did Warner Brothers not preserve their archive, or did they not have an archive? 84.93.73.129 (talk) 18:01, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

An article talk page is not the place for a general discussion of the topic. It's meant for discussions about improving the article. BMK (talk) 23:17, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Please help build this article

Please help build this article. This is a noteworthy company seeing how they are the largest non-bank lender in Canada, especially with some growing interest and concern over mortgage and housing prices. I don't mean this article to sound like an advertisement, but I've started with some basic stats about the company's holding and I'd like it to become a better article, similar to another lending organization like Home Capital Group. Gentek16 (talk) 01:37, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

This is article is about First National Pictures, an early Hollywood movie studio boought by Warner Bros. It is not about a bank. BMK (talk) 02:52, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

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A Warner Bros. - First National Picture

I realize this is sited via the AFI (and who am I to argue with the AFI) but if you actually view the films, and I've viewed a lot of them, they didn't start using the trade name "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" until 1940. From 1935 to 1939, films show "Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (and the Vitaphone Corp.) present... and then "A Warner Bros. Picture" or "A First National Picture" under the title and on the end title card. In 1934 and prior, the First National product only states First National with no mention of Warner Bros. at all. The most recent picture I've seen stating "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" is 1964's "Dead Ringer". Rkolian (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Interesting information, and thanks for the effort. It was my sense and recollection that Warners films bearing some mention of First National could be seen in WB films even after 19560, usually in the closing credits. Telegonus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Telegonus (talk • contribs) 10:16, 18 April 2017 (UTC)