warner Bros

							      Some
     Warner
    Bros. Films
•   Little Caesar (1930s)
•   The Maltese Falcon (1940s)
•   Casablanca
•   A Streetcar named Desire (1950s)
•   Moby Dick
•   Ocean’s Eleven (1960s)
•   My Fair Lady
•   The Exorcist (1970s)
•   Superman
•   Chariots of Fire (1980s)
•   Dangerous Liaisons
•   The Bodyguard (1990s)
•   Free Willy
    Brief History
•   The four Warner brothers Albert, Sam,
    Harry and jack began in the film industry
    in 1903.
•   On October 6 1927 they released their first
    film with sound called “The Jazz Singer”.
•   Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies
    cartoons began in the 1930’s.
•   1930 Saw Warner Bros. 1st animation
    “Sinking in the Bathtub”.
•   In 1955 Warner Bros. Television began.
•   Robert A. Daly and Terry Semel took over
    Warner Bros. In 1980 after all four
    brothers died.
•   1990 Warner Communications merged
    with Time Inc. to form Time Warner Inc.
•   In 1996 The studio’s first animated feature
    film was released, “Space Jam”.
•   In 1999 Barry Meyer and Alan Horn took
    over the company and are still there.
             Economy
The Warner brother started their career
as travelling exhibitors. They travelled
through Ohio and Pennsylvania with
their portable projector and showed
pictures such as “The Great Train
Robbery”. However, in 1908 they
started distribution of the 200 films that
they owned. They soon realised that
they could make large profits from
production and not just distribution and
production and so established a small
production studio in California. This is
the first effect that economy had on
Warner Bros.
The brothers grossed $1.5 million from their
first full-scale film “My Four Years in
Germany” in 1918. This was a huge
amount for this time.
Warner. Bros. West Coast Studios were set
up in 1918 at 5842 Sunset Boulevard. The
brothers bought this lot for $25,000. This
studio was converted into the finest movie
sound facility in the world after the brothers
invested heavily. They earned this money
after purchasing The Stanley Company of
America for its theatre chain. These
exceptional facilities have effected the
quality of the films produced by Warner
Bros.
Over the next few decades the company
continued to make profits by putting out
about 40 films a year.
In 1999 it made made history when its
domestic box office surpassed the $1 billion
mark for the first time.
   Technology
The first major influence on the output
of Warner Bros. Was sound. Sam and
Harry Warner first heard about ‘talking
pictures’ in May 1925 in New York.
Sam Warner had taught himself
mechanics and so immediately
installed new sound equipment into the
brothers’ Vitagraph studios in
Brooklyn, New York. This enabled
the brothers to release on of the first
movies with sound, “The Jazz Singer”
on October 6th 1927.
Soon after they produced their first all
talking movie and their first gangster
film “The Lights of New York”.
Another technological impact on the
work of Warner Bros. Is animation.
Warner Bros. Animations currently have
a library of 14,000 animated episodes
and shorts,which have been broadcast in
175 countries. The animations from
Warner Bros. Have have been shown as
animated television series, feature films,
direct-to-video releases and theatrical
shorts.
Warner Bros.
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