Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Warner bros film company.


The studio for Warner bros was built on farmland in 1926 by First National pictures which Warner bros acquired later in 1928 which following the success of "The Jazz singer" which is the historic first "talking picture. By 1929 Warner bros were turning out movies at a fast pace including 86 features alone.

By the early 1930's films such as "Little Caesar" and "The public enemy" the era of the classic warner gangster dramas was on the start as well as the start of the studio.


By the late 1930's businesses were booming and by this time Warner bros had constructed nine new sound stages which are still used today. The company at this time was developing its own brand of animation at a Hollywood annex affectionately known as the "TemiteTerrance" from the drawings of Tex Avery, Bob clampett, chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Bob Mckimson became very famous characters even today of the Looney tunes and Melodies cartoons.

By the 1940's Warner's bros was in full swing three added sound stages and then produced classic films such as "Casablanca","Yankee Doodle dandy" and, The Maltese Falcon" In 1941. The 1950's films of warner bros brought lots of sucess such as "A streetcar Named Desire", "A star is born" and the "Searches", and along with the three films that made James Dean a legend that are "East oF Eden", "Rebel without cause" and "Giant" in 1955 warner bros made a good decision to move into the arena of televsion. No television was born and classic televsion serises such as "Maverick", "77 sunset strip", "Colt.45" and "Hawaiian eye".

The 1960's came and was a good era of activity at the studio of warner bros. This was the time when warner produced award winning films such as "My Fair lady", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Splendor in the Grass", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Cool hand luke", "Camelot" and, "The wild bunch" and some successful televsion shows such as "F Troop" and, "The FBI", In 1967. As Jack warner was aging he then sold the warner company on to Elliot and Ken Hyman, who then renamed the company Warner bros- Seven Arts. Then in 1969 Warner Bros- seven Arts was then purchased by Steve Ross and his Kinney Corporation and the company then became Warner Communications Inc. DC Comics.

1972 came and warner communications and Columbia Pictures joined forces to create another production called The Burbank studios. The studio was had sucesses in films such as "A clockwork orange", "Klute", "Dirty Harry", "The Exorcist", "Blazing Saddles" and many more with then included televsion shows such as "Alice", "Kung fu" "Wonder woman" and others. The 1980's the company also continued in producing award winning films such as "The right stuff", "The color purple", "Dangerous Liaisons" and many more. With television Warner bros, television launched popular shows such as "Murphy Brown", "Life goes on" and "Growing pains".

The 1990's was the decade when The 1990 merger of Warner Communication, Inc. and time to form time with Warner, Inc one of the worlds largest communications and entertainment compaines. In this decade warner Bros. Television became one of the most successful television companies of all time as it featured all time hits such as "ER", "Friends" and "The drew carey show".

By the millennium the company brought history-making events. In 2001 Warner Bros, parent company Time warner Inc. merged with America online. The film side of the company Warner bros introduced Harry potter which had a huge impact on the box office in a good way. Other successes within the box office include the "Ocean's" series, "Troy", "The polar express", "Charlie and the chocolate factory", "300", "Happy feet", "Million dollar baby" and more. Within television the company had hits such as "Gilmore girls", "Two and a half men", "cold case" and "without a trace".

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