Warner Bros

Five Facts on warner Bros:

1. The historic studio was built over 110 acres of farmland in Califonia.



2. Old time movies such as "Little Caesar" and "The Public Enemy" were made in the manydifferent studios. The Studios theselves were and are so big that they can design scenes from an Amazonian jungle to a LA ghetto.



3. By the late 1930's, nine new sound stages were used, which are now used today. These sound stages were used for voiceovers, sound effects and theme tunes such as the classic Looney Tunes theme. Voiceovers included charcters such as bugs bunny, silvester and tweety, Daffy duck etc. Actors like Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Bob McKimson, did the voiceovers for these cartoon charcters.



4. In 1956, the 'Studio jungle set' was constructed for the movie "Santiago". It was created to simulate wooded areas. The lagoon that was made for the jungle set held 250, 000 gallons of water.



5. In the 1990's, Warner bros became one of the most successful televiosn porduction companies of all time. New television programmes were created such as, "Friends" "ER" and "the Drew Carey show".

• Two other companies are owned by Warner Bros, These are:

- Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc.

and...

- StarParks S.A.

Warner Bros is a subsidiary of Time Warner -

4 facts:

1. Number of employees- Total Worldwide: Approximately 38,000 as of March 2009.




2. Stock Ticker information- The common stockof Time Warner is traded on the new york stock exchange under the symbol TWX.




3. So far, Time Warner have won 23 awards and honours over the last 2-3 years.




4. Time Warner are related to other companies but do not own them:

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