vitaphone

As caretakers of the Warner Bros. Archives, our team has the extreme privilege of working with many incredible partners year after year, but few events are more exciting for our team of historians than the annual display at the TCM Film Festival. In celebration of the “Century of Sound”, this year’s

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Vitaphone, the first commercially successful method of combining sound with motion pictures. Initially developed by Western Electric, Vitaphone was soon acquired by Warner Bros. thanks to the vision of Sam Warner, who convinced his three brothers on the