Early Career
Powers partnered with Joseph A. Schubert, Sr. and sold phonographs from 1900-07. In 1907, they formed the Buffalo Film Exchange, which purchased films from producers and rented them to nickelodeons. In 1910, Powers left Buffalo for New York City. He founded the Powers Motion Picture Company that merged with Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) film company and others in 1912 to create Universal Pictures. He served as treasurer of the Universal Motion Picture Company.
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