With the success of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool, Warner Bros. purchased a majority interest in First National in September 1928.

He married Lucille Warner in 1928, with whom he had a daughter and three sons, one of whom died in infancy.

In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, which was a blockbuster hit.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

Warner Bros. – First National Studios, Burbank, c. 1928.

In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928 ; Jack Warner also appointed producer Darryl Zanuck as the studio's manager of First National Pictures.

* Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929.

No studio beside Warner Bros. released even a part-talking feature until the low-budget-oriented Film Booking Offices of America ( FBO ) premiered The Perfect Crime on June 17, 1928, eight months after The Jazz Singer.

The film was released in December 1928, two months after Warner Bros. acquired a controlling interest in the studio.

Over the course of 1928, as Warner Bros. began to rake in huge profits due to the popularity of its sound films, the other studios quickened the pace of their conversion to the new technology.

In the face of such organized opposition, Warner Bros. produced 12 " talkies " in 1928 alone.

The latter, released in the US as Moon of Israel, caught the attention of Jack Warner, who hired Curtiz for his own studio with the intention of having him direct a similar film for Warner Brothers -- Noah's Ark, which was eventually produced in 1928.

Originally opened in 1928 as a Warner Brothers movie theater, the recently restored and renovated Ambler Theater is a non-profit, community owned movie theater that shows independent, art and limited-distribution films.

Warner Leroy Baxter ( March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951 ) was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona ( 1929 ), for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928 – 1929 Academy Awards.

( First National had been acquired by Warner Brothers in September 1928.

The Oswald cartoons which Harman and Ising produced in 1928 and 1929 already show their distinctive style, which would later characterize their work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series for Warner Bros. For example, in Sick Cylinders ( 1929 ) there are sequences which were later remade very closely in such Harman and Ising Warner Bros. efforts as Sinkin ' in the Bathtub ( 1930 ) and Bosko's Holiday ( 1931 ).

* In the Warner Brothers Hollywood Theatre ( 1928 ) ( murals have since been taken down )

* Ramona ( 1928 film ), directed by Edwin Carewe, featuring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter

In the face of such organized opposition, Warner Bros. produced 12 " talkies " in 1928 alone.

It served as a Warner Bros. movie house from 1928 to 1933 and a United Artists cinema in 1945, but aside from these interruptions has operated as a legitimate theatre since it opened.

* 1916-1918 Samuel George Warner ( 1858 – 1928 )

* My Life Is in Your Hands by Eddie Cantor ( 1928 ) with David Freedman ; Harper & Bros.

Other businesses based in or around the town include ; Evans Accountants ( Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors ), Core Business Management Ltd ( Outsourced Business Services ), Clitheroe Light Engineering ( engineering ), Spiroflow ( material handling ), Shackletons Garden & Lifestyle Centre, Farmhouse Fayre, Townson Bros. ( fuel suppliers ), Clarity Sign & Design ( sign design and installation ) and Rufus Carr Ltd ( Independent Ford dealer ) est. 1928.

In late 1928, Brown began making films, starting the next year with Warner Bros ..

* Noah's Ark ( 1928 film ), a Warner Bros. film with talking sequences and a synchronized score

Warner Bros., now flush with income, acquired the extensive Stanley theater chain in September 1928.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

He owned a logging equipment business here from 1923 to 1928, and later became Northwest district manager for Macwhyte Co..

The John E. Mitchell Co. began work in Dallas in 1928.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Gershwin arrived in Paris in March 1928.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

In 1928, MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.

The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.

A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

* The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )