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To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Warner Bros film studio is unveiled in a documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition, in partnership with Europe 1. An epic that describes the history of cinema, its masterpieces, the mythical studio. Europe 1 presents it to you.

It is an epic that describes the history of cinema. The Warner Bros film studio is celebrating its 100th anniversary and to celebrate, a documentary traces the history of the studio that has produced masterpieces of cinema, from Casablanca to the Joker via Scorsese's Freedmen. Europe 1 was able to watch this film presented in Cannes.

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The Warner brothers, historical actors of Hollywood

Buildings as far as the eye can see, overlooked by the iconic water tower with the letters WB. The view of the film studio is mythical and the story of its foundation romantic. It is that of the four Warner brothers. At a time when the streets of Hollywood are dust fields, this tribe from a poor family of Polish immigrants relies on talking cinema, an impact similar to the arrival of the Internet. The Warner brothers were also the first to write contracts with the stars and invested in the music industry and animation, particularly with the Looney Tunes.

This company has been able to impose its trademark

In the 1940s, it was out of the question for the four brothers of Jewish origin to make a pact with the enemy. Warner Bros. will distinguish itself from other studios by offering anti-Nazi films like Casablanca. Until the arrival of another threat to the production company, television.

The documentary offers never-before-seen archives, images of stars of the golden age of Hollywood such as Bette Davis, Marlon Brando and Humprey Bogart and this not always rosy portrait of siblings, avant-garde but tyrannical.