Warner Bros. is an American film and television studio, founded by the four brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner, who had begun as cinema owners and distributors. The company was incorporated in the spring of 1923 and grew into one of the major Hollywood studios. In 1927 it released The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length film with synchronised spoken dialogue, which marked the beginning of the sound era. The studio became known for its gangster films, for classics such as Casablanca, and for cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny in the Looney Tunes series. It was later merged into Time Warner and more recently into Warner Bros. Discovery, and it also produced the Harry Potter films.
Before and after
- 10 February 1923Death of Wilhelm Röntgen
- 3 March 1923Time
- 10 March 1923Founding of Villarreal CF
- 26 March 1923Death of Sarah Bernhardt
- 4 April 1923Founding of Warner Bros. Entertainment
- 10 May 1923Birth of Heydar Aliyev
- 27 May 1923Birth of Henry Kissinger
- 2 July 1923Birth of Wisława Szymborska
- 6 July 1923Birth of Wojciech Jaruzelski
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The era
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