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GTE started as a (lousy) phone company, sucked up Sylvania, spun them off, became #&$@ Verizon,and basically sucked at everything, except for making those nice CRTs, and of course those HaloLight sets...
Technicolor started as a firm that did the famous color process for color films. The three strip system was ultimately displaced by modern negative films, and they just became some company that did....something. Maybe processing or printing, though Kodak was huge in that.
Thompson started out intertwined with GE, which is interesting because they somehow became a French company and GE sold them RCA and a bunch of other things.
France being France, Alsthom gets into the mix along the way.
Seriously, you need a heck of a chart to figure who was doing what and who became who.
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