100 years of Warner Bros: the crazy story of the mythical film studios

2023-05-30T15:42:47.041Z

Highlights: A series of four documentary films and a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française celebrate the centenary of Warner Bros. Since the creation of Warner by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack, this company has been able to impose its trademark, despite the economic, technological and cultural changes it has undergone. Some film titles make it possible to realize the extent of the Warner legacy at the heart of world cinema: from The Jazz Singer in 1927, to Inception (2010)

A series of four documentary films and a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française celebrate the centenary of Warner Bros.

For a century, viewers around the world have seen the "WB" logo displayed on every film produced by Warner Bros. Studios. And this, even if this logo has changed shape a good twenty times... Since the creation of Warner by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack, from the working class, this company has been able to impose its trademark, despite the economic, technological and cultural changes it has undergone.

Some film titles make it possible to realize the extent of the Warner legacy at the heart of world cinema: from The Jazz Singer in 1927, to Inception (2010) via The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Fury of Living (1955), My Fair Lady (1962), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Inspector Harry (1971), Deliverance (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Superman (1978), The Shining (1980), Blade Runner (1982), The Freedmen (1990), The Matrix