: In their early Nickelodeon days, Jack Warner acted as a "chaser"—a theater employee whose job was to sing so badly that the audience would leave, allowing a new paying crowd to enter for the next screening.
: By 1926, the studio was in dire financial trouble. Sam Warner convinced his brothers to gamble on Vitaphone technology, leading to the 1927 release of The Jazz Singer . It was the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue and its massive success saved the company while ending the silent film era. Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie St...
: To fund their first real entry into the film business, their father, Benjamin Warner , sold his gold watch and the family’s meat delivery horse, Bob . : In their early Nickelodeon days, Jack Warner