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= Warner Bros. Archives = Warner Bros. Archives is a publicly accessible research archive of corporate records for Warner Bros. Pictures and its motion picture subsidiaries. The collection is housed and managed by the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. The material in the collections date from 1918, the date of the first Warner Bros. feature film, until 1968, when Warner Bros. was acquired by Seven Arts.

History
Donated to the University of Southern California by Warner Communications in 1977, the USC Warner Bros. Archives [WBA] is the largest and possibly richest single studio collection of paper documents in the world. It is the only collection to bring together production, distribution, and exhibition records to document the activities of a vertically integrated movie studio. In the archives' collections, the making of many classic films -- including The Jazz Singer, Casablanca, and Rebel Without a Cause -- is documented from story acquisition through theatrical release, including the daily contributions of actors, directors, producers, writers, and other studio personnel.

The initial donation

Collections
The WBA contains the paper records of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and its motion picture subsidiaries.

The collections of the Warner Bros. Archives include the pre-1968 files from the following studio departments:


 * Accounting
 * Administrative and Executive
 * Animation
 * Art
 * Auditing
 * Booking and Billing
 * Business Affairs
 * Cashier's Office
 * Casting
 * Corporate Services
 * Distribution
 * Industrial Relations
 * Insurance
 * Legal
 * Music
 * Patent
 * Payroll
 * Personnel
 * Print
 * Production
 * Publicity
 * Real Estate
 * Reference Photographs
 * Story
 * Tax
 * Television

Additional collections include:


 * Publicity Photographs
 * Historical Photographs
 * Music Scores Collection
 * Cartoon Backgrounds Collection
 * Stanley-Warner Theatre Collection

The collections also include files for the following subsidiary companies:


 * First National Pictures
 * First National Exhibitor's Circuit, Inc. (1917-1919)
 * Associated First National Theatres, Inc. (1919-)
 * Associated First National Pictures, Inc. (1919-)
 * First National Productions, Inc.
 * Vitagraph Company of America
 * Vitagraph Studios (Brooklyn)
 * Vitagraph Studios (Hollywood)
 * Seven Arts
 * Seven Arts Corporation
 * Seven Arts Productions (1957-1967)
 * Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967-1970)
 * Hammer Films
 * Cosmopolitan Productions
 * Associated Artists Productions, Inc.
 * Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
 * Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
 * Warner-Pathe Distributors, Ltd.
 * Harms, Inc.
 * Witmark & Sons
 * ERPI
 * Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corporation
 * Warner Bros. Pictures International Corporation
 * Stanley-Warner Theatre Corporation



Search
The core of the collection, as part of the initial 1977 donation of West Coast (Burbank) files and East Coast (New York) Home Office files is searchable on the Warner Bros. Archives website.

Visit
The WBA is open by appointment to any individual with a credible research project. Additional details are available on the WBA website.

Permissions
The physical rights to the collection are owned and managed by the University of Southern California. The underlying intellectual property rights are retained by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Publication and licensing permissions is facilitated by the Corporate Legal Department of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Exhibits & Performances
A number of museum exhibitions and live performances have featured materials from the Warner Bros. Archives.


 * Warner's War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, The Norman Lear Center, October 1, 2003 to December 13, 2003, https://learcenter.org/project/warners-war/warners-war-the-exhibition/
 * Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950, Skirball, October 23, 2014 to March 1, 2015, https://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/light-noir
 * What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, Museum of the Moving Image, July 19, 2015 to January 19, 2015, http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2014/07/19/detail/whats-up-doc-the-animation-art-of-chuck-jones/
 * Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, August 18, 2015 to January 17, 2016, https://2015.acmi.net.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2016/orry-kelly-dressing-hollywood/
 * America's Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Public Library, November 16, 2016 to February 26, 2017, http://shakespeare.lfla.org/

Publications

 * Rudy Behlmer, Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)
 * Chris Yogerst, From the Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Bros.
 * Eric Hoyt, Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video
 * Alan K. Rode, Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
 * Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
 * Katherine Spring, Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema
 * Christopher Anderson, Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties
 * Sherrie Tucker, Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
 * Nick Roddick, A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s
 * Marilyn Ann Moss, Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
 * Ed Sikov, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
 * Aljean Halmetz, Round Up the Usual Suspects: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
 * Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie
 * Ronald Haver, A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration
 * Michael E. Birdwell, Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism.
 * Nick Roddick, A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s.