The Studio That Made Talking Pictures a Thing Now Owned By Netflix

“Wait a minute, you ain’t seen nothing yet!”

Those words, delivered by Al Jolson in 1927’s The Jazz Singer shocked the world and changed cinema forever. Although sound had been part of movies in some form or another almost from the beginning of moving pictures, The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length film with synchronized sound and partial speech. The Jazz Singer was so cutting-edge that Warner Bros had to specially install unique equipment to show it. So even though, as film historian Scott Eyman recounts in his book The Speed of Sound , the Warner brothers “spent $500,000 on a film that can be shown in precisely two theaters,” it proved to be a revolution, forever changing the way we watch movies.

And now, Warner Brothers is going to change the way we watch movies again