Harry Warner as the Edison Trust), which charged distributors exorbitant fees. In 1910, the Warners sold the family business to the General Film Company for "$10,000 in cash, $12,000 in preferred stock, and payments over a four-year period for a total of $52,000". After they sold their business, Harry and his three brothers joined forces with independent filmmaker Carl Laemmle's Independent Motion Picture Company, and began distributing films from his Pittsburgh film exchange division. In 1912, the brothers earned a $1,500 profit with the film "Dante's Inferno". In the wake of this success, Harry and the brothers broke with Laemmle and established
Albert Samuel Albert Samuel Albert Moeller Samuel (7 June 1876 – 18 June 1963) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was elected to the electorate in the 1925 general election. In 1928 he was elected to the Thames electorate, but was defeated in 1935. Prior to his tenure as an electoral MP, Samuel fought in the Second Boer War in the 4th Contingent of the Mounted Rifles. He was a member of the NZEF during World War 1 and served as a major in the Wellington Mounted Rifles. He was decorated with the following honours: In 1935,