Airdate: The Warner Saga

One for movie buffs….

Foxtel Arts will screen a documentary on Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers, Sam, Harry, Albert, and Jack L. Warner, The Warner Saga.

The Warner Brothers’ career is a true rags to riches story. They very quickly sensed that there was more money to be made with film than with the paternal shop in Youngtown, Ohio. When Sam Warner saw the Edison Kinetoscope for the first time, he saw the future. The brothers bought a projector which came with one print, the old classic western The Great Train Robbery. And they made more money in a week, showing this movie in a rented hall, than their father in a month.

Wednesday October 26 at 6.30pm on Foxtel Arts.