Their story is like the fulfillment of the American dream. Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack are Polish immigrants of Jewish descent who immigrated from Krasnosielc, a village in the Masovian Voivodeship, to the United States as children. The brothers, implicitly believing in their passion and trusting their intuition, pawned the family fortune: a horse and their father’s watch. Thanks to this, they gained capital, which they allocated to the purchase of the first projector. Today we know that the investment was right, and cinema without the contribution of the Warner family would not be the same today.
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The Warners enriched the films not only with sound, they created the first four-legged star (the German Shepherd Dog Rin Tin Tin in the series), breathed life into the musical and initiated the fashion for gangster films. When they toured Ohio and Pennsylvania with their portable projector in the early 20th century, they showed viewers the Western Heist on the Express by Edwin S. Porter. A few years later, they won the rights to 200 more titles. They started distributing and opening new venues and studios, where they could not only display, but also produce new images themselves.
The first full-length original film by the Warner brothers was My Four Years in Germany, based on the best-selling book by the US ambassador to the court of Kaiser Wilhelm. The production earned an astronomical amount of $ 1.5 million for those times.
However, there were shadows in the studio’s triumphant history. Sam Warner paid for the family success with his life. The creator died as a result of a brain infection, increased by exhaustion, a day before the premiere of the most important film in the lives of the brothers, the aforementioned “Jazzband Singer”.
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For 100 years of operation, Warner Bros. he has created a number of films loved by successive generations. The label managed to revive today’s iconic characters such as Harry Potter or the heroes of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and create completely new personalities such as Dirty Harry or animated Bugs Bunny. The list of film studio classics seems to be endless. It is the Warner brothers company that is behind the release of “Singin’ in the Rain”, “Rebel Without a Cause”, “Dirty Dozen”, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and newer productions such as “Inception”, “The Matrix”, “Dune” and “Elvis”. The Warner Bros library includes over 12,000 titles, and apart from individual films, the company also creates entire universes under the sign of “The Lord of the Rings”, “Harry Potter” or DC comics – “Batman”, “Joker”, “Superman”.
Polish branch of Warner Bros. opened almost 30 years ago. For three decades, the company screened almost 400 of its own titles in cinemas, which gathered millions of viewers in their seats. All parts of “Harry Potter” were watched by over 12.5 million Poles. Films from the “Matrix” series (3 million viewers) or “Joker” (over 2 million viewers) were also very popular among our compatriots. Warner Bros. it is also a rich series offer. The label has already created over 2,400 of its own titles.
Source: Gazeta
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