Like the studio itself, the iconic Warner Bros. shield logo has evolved over the years ... he threw himself into readying the company’s Vitaphone synchronized sound system to impress moviegoers ...

In 1929, to show that their movies had sound, Warner Bros. shared its logo with Vitaphone, and in 1934, a shield logo floating in a cloud-filled sky with the WB taking up the entire shield debuted.

Between 1926 and 1930, Warner Bros. used its Vitaphone system to produce more than 1,000 brief films that included jazz bands, comedy acts and opera singers. But because of the cumbersome nature ...

Never shown even on TCM, they’re the fruit of a collaboration between Warner Bros., the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Vitaphone project that yielded an earlier collection.

To effect the breakthrough, the 89-minute Warner Bros. feature presentation relied on the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The projectionist manually synced each of the 15 film reels to its own ...