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Hollywood was an attractive place for the early film makers to settle, full of good weather, orange and lemon trees. For manufacturers who owed money on borrowed photographic camera equipment if a creditor came after them, they could conceal among the trees. It was a difficult concern full of causalities and took a pirate's outlook to survive. Most of the studio caputs were from mediocre backgrounds, with limited English accomplishments and never forgot their childhood or a personal slight. Included were Jack, Harry, Prince Albert and Sam, the four Charles Dudley Warner Brothers from Youngstown, Ohio. They had begun with showing movies off the side of a collapsible shelter in Youngstown, borrowing all the chairs from the local undertaker. Every time there was a funeral in Youngstown, they had to give all the chairs back and the movie frequenters were forced to stand.

As a male child Jack Charles Dudley Warner wished to be a vocalist and a comedian. His brothers, recognizing his deficiency of endowment instructed him to sing in the collapsible shelter when they wanted the audience to leave. He was later advised that the money was not in performing, it was in paying performers. Among the stars that would be under contract to him would be Betty Davis, Jesse James Cagney, Humphrey Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn.

The soundless years were a battle for Charles Dudley Warner Bros. Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that according to his promotion was born in a fox hole in World War I, was their greatest star. Epic as he might have got been on the screen, he proved to be, like many stars, cantankerous in person. Jack Charles Dudley Warner took the domestic dog on a promotion tour. As he introduced him to the crowd, his ungrateful employee spot him on the behind, leading to the dog's dismissal. It proved to be a preliminary to Warner's many hereafter conflicts with stars.

Trying to do a name for themselves, the four blood brothers got great promotion by announcing that the renowned opera tenor voice Enrico Caruso would be arriving from Italian Republic to do a movie for them. They paid him 25,000 dollars and then set him in a soundless movie.

The film studios had the engineering to do talking movies old age before they made them. One of the grounds why they resisted the thought was that they didn't desire to put on the line losing their abroad market. Stars like Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Virgin Mary Mary Pickford rarely ever had a floating-point operation as their movies were shown around the world and knew no linguistic communication barriers. But in 1926 the soundless movies faced their greatest competition with a new device called the radio. As film attending dwindled the studio caputs close their eyes and pretended the radiocommunication was not there. But the Warners take by the ambitious Sam, decided to force the envelope and seek to salvage their sinking studio by experimenting with film sound.

Sam purchased an experimental sound system called Vita-phone. They then acquired the rights to The Wind Singer, a popular play about a immature adult male who had a beautiful voice and is offered a Great White Way calling against the wishings of his Old World Jewish father. In the play the boy gave in to his male parent but the Warner's, wishing to attain a wider audience, Americanized the story by having the boy follow his ain dreams. Star Aluminum Al Jolson adlibbed the dialogue," Wait a minute, delay a minute you ain't heard nothing, yet!" The Warner's were only intending vocalizing but at the last minute they impulsively kept the line in the film. The Wind Singer received a standing standing ovation when it premiered in New House Of York in 1927 and went on to do three and one-half million dollars at a time when admittance costs 20 cents. The sound revolution was under way!

Movie audiences had often been loud and noisy while watching soundless films. Now the theater's got quiet as people strained to hear every word. Movie Theater's had to be rewired for sound, costing major studios like Paramount and Fox billions of dollars. Movies now had to movie mostly at nighttime as any passing play motortruck noise could destroy a sound recording. " How boring!" said Virgin Mary Pickford. "At first we moved! Now everyone is standing around talking!" One enterprising histrion was hired for one day's work. When the manager wasn't looking he allow a clump of crickets loose on the set. It was five years before the crew could round up the chirping crickets, and the histrion kept on hold received five times the paycheck.