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1. SIAHPC_131214_006.JPG: Vitaphone disc The Jazz Singer 1927
2. SIAHPC_131214_010.JPG: The Brothers Warner: Jack, Albert, Harry, and Sam Warner operated their first movie theater, a makeshift storefront affair, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, around 1905. A year later, they founded the Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company to distribute films made by others. In 1918 the brothers purchased their first studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. There and in New York, they began their pioneering efforts in bringing sound to the movies.
3. SIAHPC_131214_012.JPG: The Jazz Singer and the Vitaphone Process: Al Jolson, self-described as "the world's greatest entertainer," starred in The Jazz Singer, a melodrama that heralds Hollywood's first, if primitive, effort to incorporate snatches of spoken dialogue and singing into a feature-length movie. Jolson's photograph adorns the cover of Brass Tacks, a weekly publication of film industry news for Warner Bros. employees. The Western Electric microphone is a vital element of the Vitaphone process, which made Warner Bros. Studios a pioneer in sound films and elevating them to prominence among Hollywood moviemakers. The system used 16-inch discs containing the movie soundtrack, which were played on a turntable synchronized with the film projector's motor. The Vitaphone process was used in a number of Warner Bros. features and film shorts. Vitaphone is derived from combining the Latin term vita, meaning living, and the Greek word phone, for sound.
4. SIAHPC_131214_015.JPG: Jack Warner's telephone
5. SIAHPC_131214_019.JPG: Jack Warner's address book Note entries for Cecil De Mille, "Miss" Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Olivia DeHaviland, Walt Disney, and Salvador Dali.
6. SIAHPC_131214_027.JPG: Jack L. Warner Flamboyant and dynamic, Jack (born Jacob) Warner served as the head of production for Warner Bros. for over 45 years. The telephone and address book are from his office. He presided over all studio operations, using his silver-plated office phone (emblazoned with a kingly "JLW") to manage the facility. Jack engaged in frequent clashes over business matters with his older brothers Harry and Albert. In 1956, he assumed exclusive control of Warner Bros., Inc., when he persuaded them to participate in a joint sale of stocks, ultimately buying the stocks back in a deal disputed to this day. His reign in Hollywood history represented many of the aspects of regal behavior befitting a movie mogul, as if the entertainment industry had set up American film monarchies that grew out of its immigrant culture.
7. SIAHPC_131214_037.JPG: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962, director: Robert Aldrich What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in a psychological thriller starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The press book cover features a humorously macabre sketch by Charles Addams depicting his famous characters, the Addams Family, looking in on Davis and Crawford in a scene from the film. The script by Lukas Heller is producer Jack L. Warner's personal copy and is turned to the scene where Davis's character, a demented former child star, is serving an unconventional lunch to Crawford.
8. SIAHPC_131214_040.JPG: Film script
9. SIAHPC_131214_043.JPG: Bette Davis' costume from Dark Victory
10. SIAHPC_131214_047.JPG: Dark Victory 1939, Director: Edmund Goulding Between 1932 and 1963, Orry-Kelly designed costumers for some of Hollywood's leading actresses, including Ginger Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, and Marilyn Monroe. However, it was his lengthy professional association with Bette Davis, a seasoned contract player at Warner Bros., on over three dozen films that confirmed his status as a major Hollywood costume designer. He created this stylish cocktail dress for Davis to wear as Judith Traherne, the tragic socialite heroine of Dark Victory. For his motion picture work, Orry-Kelly received three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design.
11. SIAHPC_131214_052.JPG: Bette Davis costume, Now, Voyager
12. SIAHPC_131214_055.JPG: Warner Bros. Studios: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has produced many memorable and influential films and television series. They are valuable resources in helping us understand the American experience.
13. SIAHPC_131214_056.JPG: Now, Voyager: 1942, Director: Irving Rapper Bette Davis had one of her biggest box office hits of the 1940s with Now, Voyager, a romantic drama that centers on a young woman's search for independence. She was greatly aided in developing her approach to the role by costumes of Hollywood designer Orry-Kerry. His work vividly illustrates the heroines's trajectory from dowdy spinster to stylish sophisticate. The bejeweled cape and beaded dress allowed Davis to achieve the full measure of glamour for her character.
14. SIAHPC_131214_063.JPG: Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon costume
15. SIAHPC_131214_073.JPG: Enter the Dragon 1973, Director: Robert Clouse Warner Bros. was the first major Hollywood studio to be associated with the production of a Chinese martial arts action film. Enter the Dragon stars Bruce Lee as a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who becomes involved in an undercover mission for British intelligence. Enter the Dragon was released on July 26, 1973, just six days after Lee's sudden death.
16. SIAHPC_131214_077.JPG: Drawing Cheyenne, 1955: This stark drawing of a cowboy standing in front of a backdrop of mountainous landscape was used for the opening and end titles of Cheyenne, a Western television series starring Clint Walker that aired on the ABC network from 1955 to 1963. The drawing is on scratchboard and is etched out in white from a layer of black ink applied to the board. The cowboy is a cutout image overlaid on the scratchboard. Cheyenne, the first hour-long dramatic Western series on television, stands at the head of a long line of Warner Bros.-produced original series.
17. SIAHPC_131214_084.JPG: Drawings "What's Opera, Doc?" 1957 "Kill the wabbit!" sings Elmer Fudd in pursuit of his quarry, carrot-chomping Bugs Bunny, in this Chuck Jones-directed animation masterpiece. The work, a celebrated entry in the Merrie Melodies series of Warner Bros. Technicolor cartoons, is a wild parody of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner's cycle of epic operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen. The cartoon features Bugs Bunny dressed in blonde-braided drag as the Valkyrie Brunnhilde and Elmer Fudd as the demigod Siegfried, as seen in these red-pencil layout drawings created for the cartoon.
18. SIAHPC_131214_096.JPG: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001, Director: Chris Columbus Warner Bros. successfully brought the enormously popular series of books to life on screen. Designer Judianna Makovsky created this costume, the uniform of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Actor Daniel Ratcliffe wore it as Harry Potter, the young wizard hero.
19. SIAHPC_131214_098.JPG: Batarang The Dark Knight, 2008 With Batman Begins in 2005, director Christopher Nolan's treatment of the character gave new dimension to the Batman legend. This prop, called a batarang, was used as a throwing weapon by Christian Bale as the film's leading figure, batman. A stable in his arsenal, the batarang is hurled like a boomerang to ward off attackers. The batarang's first appeared as an illustration in a 1939 edition of Detective Comics.
20. SIAHPC_131214_103.JPG: Daniel Radcliffe's costume from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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