Beginning in NUMBER@1 , both PERSON@1 and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company , ORGANIZATION@1 , organized early that year by a LOCATION@1 theatre owner , PERSON@2 , who had bought and merged several smaller firms .

Organized in NUMBER@1 by a LOCATION@1 theater owner , PERSON@2 , ORGANIZATION@2 was the first successful nation-wide distributor .
