Warner Bros. production slides, 1979-1991

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Creator

Warner Bros.

Location

Billy Rose Theatre Division

Extent

• 18 vols.: col.; 5 x 5 cm.

Scope/Contents Note

The Warner Bros. production slides consist primarily of publicity and production slides of films produced and/or distributed by Warner Brothers from the eighties to 1991. Early years of the collection contain many gaps with thefirst film being a 1979 release followed next by a 1983 release. From 1987, however, the collection is relativelycomplete.

Biographical/Historical Notes

Warner Bros. Pictures was incorporated in 1923 by the fourWarner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack. The company had begun its movie making career earlier however,when it produced its first film in 1918. In 1925 Warner Bros. acquired the Vitagraph Company, in Brooklyn, New York, expanding its holdings from the East to the West coast. Warner Bros. pioneered sound motion pictures with DON JUAN (1926) and THE JAZZ SINGER (1927). Additional purchases in the twenties included First National Picturesand Fox West Coast Theatres. During the thirties and forties, Warner Bros. entertained the American public withsuch classic films as: THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931); THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (1936); THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938); DARK VICTORY (1939); THE MALTESE FALCON (1941); CASABLANCA (1943); MILDRED PIERCE (1945); JOHNNY BELINDA (1948) and WHITE HEAT (1949).

Warner Bros. entered the age of television in the fifties. Financial difficulties in the sixties, however, resulted in a takeover by Seven Arts Productions, Ltd. In1969, the company was acquired by Kinney National Services,Inc. and the newly formed Warner Communications, Inc. became the entertainment arm of Kinney's corporate empire.The eighties saw Warner Bros. as a solid motion picture corporation which produced financially successful films such as GREMLINS, LETHAL WEAPON and BATMAN. In 1989 WarnerBros. was bought by Time, Inc. The new corporation is now known as Time-Warner.

Controlled Access Terms

• Warner Bros.
• Motion picture industry.
• Slides -- Color -- 1970-.
• Publicity photographs -- 1970-.