2. Warner Bros. Motto "Educate, Entertain, and Enlighten."
3. Harry , Albert , Sam, and Jack The Warner Brothers
4. Albert Warner July 23, 1884-November 26, 1967 Samuel L.
Warner August 10, 1887-October 5, 1927 Harry Warner December 12,
1881-July 25, 1958 Jack Warner August 2, 1892-September 9,
1978
5. Their parents were Jewish immigrants from Krasnosielc,
Poland and mainly spoke Yiddish.
6. Harry M. Warner It is not the challenge of dollars ... it is
the challenge of ideals and ideas! If the producers of pictures,
see only the dollar - then I believe those production efforts will
fail. The Company's President
7. Sam Warner "The Father of Talking Pictures" (CEO) Chief
Executive Officer
8. Albert Warner Treasurer of Warner Bros.
9. Jack L. Warner Studio's Executive in Charge of Production
One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences
10. 1903 In 1903, they bought a kinetoscope made by Thomas
Edison.The brothers began in the film business as traveling
exhibitors, moving throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. One of the
first pictures they showed was Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train
Robbery, the first motion picture to tell a definite story. By
1907, they were operating from a converted store in New Castle,
Pennsylvania, which they named the Cascade Theatre. With Albert and
Harry selling tickets, Sam ran the hand-crank projector while Jack
sang illustrated songs during the intermissions to sister Rose's
piano accompaniment. Within the year, they had opened two more
theaters in New Castle.
11. They opened their first theater, The Cascade, in New
Castle, Pennsylvania 1907
12. By 1918, they built their first studio in Los Angeles, in
Culver City. Two years later, they moved to a site in Hollywood, on
Sunset Blvd.,
13. March 10, 1918 My Four Years in Germany was Warner's first
film. Their first full-scale picture, My Four Years in Germany,
based on the best-selling book by America's ambassador to the court
of Kaiser Wilhelm, premiered in 1918 and grossed an amazing (for
that time) $1.5 million.
14. The studio's first major star was a German shepherd, Rin
Tin Tin. The dog appeared in 27 movies and was Warners' biggest
asset of the silent era.
15. Warner Bros. was a pioneer of films with synchronized sound
"talkies In May 1925, Sam and Harry heard the first sounds of
talking pictures in the New York offices of Western Electric. Sam,
self-taught in mechanics, instantly recognized the groundbreaking
potential of this new technology
16. They installed the new sound equipment in their
just-acquired Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn. 1925
17. Don Juan opens Warners' Theatre NYC
18. As a result of their financial problems, Warner Bros. took
the next step and released The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. This
movie, which has very little sound dialogue but includes sound
segments of Jolson singing, was a sensation. It signaled the
beginning of the era of "talking pictures". The first
feature-length part-talkie 1927
19. Lights of New York is the first all-talking full length
feature film 1928
20. 1929 the first all-talking color film. The enormous
financial success of these early sound films enabled Warner
Brothers to become a major motion-picture studio.
21. Purchased First National Pictures therefor acquiring a
newly built studio in Burbank California, which today remains the
home of Warner Bros. Studios. The Warners invested heavily into
converting the new studio into the finest movie sound facility in
the world. Stages were soundproofed and ready for talking films
1928
22. 1930s Among the major films produced during the 1930s were
The Petrified Forest, Little Caesar ,The Public Enemy, Black Legion
,42nd Street, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, a film that led to
prison reform.
23. 1936
24. With the collapse of the market for musicals, Warner
Bros.turned to more socially realistic storylines. For its many
films about gangsters Warner Bros. soon became known as a "gangster
studio. The studio's first gangster film, Little Caesar, was a
great box office success
25. 1940s in the 1940s, the Studio produced such classics as
The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, King's Row, Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and
Johnny Belinda.
26. The Warner animation division was founded in
27. Jack Warner had been the effective head of the studio since
the 1920s, often clashing with his brothers. In the 1956, the
brothers agreed to sell their interest in the studio, but Jack
secretly bought his brothers shares. Soon, he was the sole head of
the studio. The brothers never spoke to him again.
28. In 1967, Seven Arts acquired a controlling interest in
Warner Bros. from Jack Warner For $32 million. Merged as Warner
Bros.-Seven Arts, then being acquired in 1969 by Kinney National
Company and renamed simply "Warner Bros.
29. Warners created the blueprint for the modern-day superhero
movie with 1978's "Superman" (with Christopher Reeve) and 1989's
"Batman" (with Michael Keaton), both based on caped-hero titles
published by DC Comics, which was a division of Warner Bros.
30. Virtually every movie Clint Eastwood has directed or
starred in for the past 45 years has been for Warner Bros., a
partnership that has included about 40 films.
31. Warner Bros. Today
32. Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara Says he wants to be the
king of content. Fifth leader in the 90-year history of Warner
Bros.
33. Warners Bros has 10 Best Picture Oscar winners
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