Pat Powers (businessman)

Patrick Anthony PowersOctober 1870 July 1948 was an American businessman who was involved in the movie and animation industry of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. According to the Buffalo CourierExpress obituary dated August 1, 1948, Powers was considered a native Buffalonian. His sister, Mary Ellen Powers, lived in Buffalo for her entire life.

In 1912, Powers company merged with Carl Laemmles Independent Moving Pictures Company IMP film company and others to create Universal Pictures. He served as treasurer of the Universal Motion Picture Company.Between the 1922 reorganization of Film Booking Office of America and October 1923, Powers, as one of the companys new American investors, was effectively in command. Powers had previously led his own filmmaking company, part of the multiple merger that created Universal Pictures in 1912. Powers apparently changed the name of RobertsonColeFBO to the Powers Studio for a brief period, though there is no record of the company ever having produced or released a film under that banner. In 1928, Joseph P. Kennedy and RCA head David Sarnoff merged FBO and the KeithAlbeeOrpheum theater circuit to form RKO Radio Pictures. ........

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