To arrange onsite research viewing access, please contact the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC).Īlso, be sure to check out our 'Warner Archive Collection' on DVD.Despite earning an initial professional critics' score of 49% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was ultimately successful with home audiences, topping digital rental charts nationwide in the first three weekends of its release. Its impressive star roster boasted the likes of Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Edward G. include Michael Curtiz, Mervyn LeRoy, William Wellman, John Huston, William Dieterleand Raoul Walsh. For thirty years, beginning in 1930, the studio produced the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series which featured 'stars' like Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.ĭuring the studio's heyday (1930s and 1940s) it employed legendary producers Darryl Zanuck, Hal B. The studio's animation department routinely allowed its talented artists, voice actors, writers, and composers complete access to studio resources and facilities, and encouraged creative freedom as long as a certain output was guaranteed (30-40 shorts per year). These aspects are present in the studio's best known genre, the gangster film ( Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Roaring Twenties), but is also readily evident in the studio's 'New Deal' dramas ( They Drive By Night, I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) and its musicals ( Gold Diggers of 1933).Īnimation was a Warner Bros. Warner films have been described as socially conscious in theme and relatively simple in visual style (low key lighting and sparse sets). have been historically associated with a distinctive style. After a period of experimentation, the company made cinematic history with the release of the first film with sychronized songs and dialogue, The Jazz Singer.Īlmost more than from any other Hollywood studio, films made at Warner Bros.

It then teamed with Western Electric to form Vitaphone, a subsidiary to develop sound-on-disc motion pictures. Within several years of its founding in 1923, Warner Bros. Download a sample list of available titles and additional research resources at UCLA in PDF format.

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