The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers, Harry Warner (1881-1958), Albert Warner (1883-1967), Sam Warner (1887-1927) and Jack L. Warner (1892-1978). The three elder brothers began in the exhibition business in 1903, having acquired a projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Within a few years this led to the distribution of pictures across a four-state area. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Suns ...

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Over the years, a series of mergers and acquisitions have helped Warners (the present-day Time-Warner subsidiary) to accumulate a diverse collection of movies, cartoons, and television programs. In the aftermath of the 1948 anti-trust suit, uncertain times led Warners in 1956 to sell its 650 of its pre-1948 films and cartoons to a holding company which became Associated Artists Productions (AAP). Two years later AAP sold its holdings to United Artists (UA), which held them until 1981, when MGM bought UA. Three years later Turner Broad ...

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Warner Bros. Entertainment is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with headquarters in Burbank, California, U.S.A.. Warner Brothers includes several subsidiary companies, among them Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, WB Television, Warner Home Video, Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Dark Castle Entertainment, DC Comics, and Cartoon Network Studios - formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Including:

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Warner Bros. Movie World is a movie related theme park on the Gold Coast in Australia. It is owned and operated by Warner Village Theme Parks and is the only movie related park in Australia. Warner Bros. Movie World - Concept and construction. The concept of Warner Bros. Movie World was the creation of the late C.V. Wood (1920 - 1999), one of the world's foremost theme park designers and President of the Recreation Enterprises Division of Warner Bros. Woody, as he was affectionately known, ...

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The concept of Warner Bros. Movie World was the creation of the late C.V. Wood (1920 - 1999), one of the world's foremost theme park designers and President of the Recreation Enterprises Division of Warner Bros. Woody, as he was affectionately known, was instrumental in the design and development of Disneyland, Six Flags Over Texas and other leisure-time facilities. From the moment Woody flew to Australia and saw the vacant land adjoining the Studio ...

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While many earlier sound films had dialogue, all were short subjects. D.W. Griffith's feature Dream Street (1920) was shown in New York with a singing sequence and crowd noises, but had no dialogue. Likewise, the first Warner Bros. Vitaphone feature, Don Juan (1926), had only synchronized music and sound effects. The Jazz Singer contains only a few minutes' worth of dialogue, most of it improvised. The rest of the film's soundtrack is instrumental musical accompaniment and sound effects, with most of the dialogue ...

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Chuck Jones - Early Life. Jones was born in Spokane, Washington, and later moved with his parents and three siblings to the Los Angeles, California area. In his autobiography, Chuck Amuck, Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s. His father, Jones recounts, would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them. When the business failed, his father would ...

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The value of film libraries has increased exponentially in recent years, even as ownership gets more fractured. Few studios had the foresight or ability to maintain control over every picture they produced or released. United Artists, through various strategic purchases, built up a substantial film library. Included were rights not only to some of UA's own releases, but to the pre-1948 Warner Bros. and RKO libraries. Having passed through numerous hands, this catalog now belongs ...

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