Warner Brothers produced the first screen operetta, The Desert Song in 1929.

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

In 1929, Warner Bros bought the St. Louis-based theater chain Skouras Brothers.

In the third quarter of 1929, Warner Bros. gained complete control of First National, when Harry purchased the company's remaining one-third share from Fox.

In the latter part of 1929, Jack Warner hired George Arliss to star in Disraeli, which was a success.

In 1929, National Pictures released their first film with Warner Bros., Noah's Ark.

In 1929, Warner Bros. released On with the Show, the first all-color all-talking feature.

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

* 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.

* Worcester Reed Warner ( 1846 – 1929 ), mechanical engineer and manufacturer of telescopes

Disraeli ( 1929 ) is a historical film directed by Alfred E. Green, released by Warner Brothers, and adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker.

There were two previous film versions of Arthur Richman's play on which this film was based, a 1925 silent version from independent Peninsula Studios, San Mateo, California with Warner Baxter in Grant's role, and a little-known early talkie made in 1929 with Henry Daniell and Ina Claire.

This is a listing of the shorts, feature films, television programs, and television specials in Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, extending from 1929 through the present.

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.

* Chinatown Nights ( 1929 ) with Warner Oland and Jack Oakie

Lewis and his band appeared in a few early-talkie movie musicals in 1929, notably the Warner Brothers revue The Show of Shows.

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 ).

Siodmak worked at this for two years before he persuaded Nebenzal to finance his first feature, the silent chef d ' oeuvre, People on Sunday ( Menschen am Sonntag ) ( 1929 ).

Faisal first proposed Nuri as prime minister in 1929, but it was only in 1930 that the British were persuaded to forgo their objections.

In 1929 he wrote, “ The beauty and grandeur of this form in motion has to be developed in such a way that it becomes self-sufficient without the use of words .” The inherent beauty & depth of Tagore's songs have persuaded a number of filmmakers to use Tagore ’ s songs in their films including Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Nitin Bose, Tapan Sinha and Kumar Shahani. His songs were also used in British, European & Australian movies just to capture the mood of a cinematic situation & to reveal a delicate interplay of relationships.

Actively persuaded by the Communist Party of Sweden, the first families left before the end of 1929.

Escaping the hardships of the Russian Revolution to join Circus Busch in Berlin, he was spotted by Bertram Mills and persuaded to move to England, arriving with his young wife Valentina in 1929.

The 1929 exile of Léon Trotsky persuaded him to rejoin the surrealists.

* 1929 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month.

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

Fleming published his discovery in 1929, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but little attention was paid to his article.

In 1929, George Lawson Johnston was recognised by the British Government and monarchy and was ennobled as Lord Luke of Pavenham in the county of Bedford.

According to the British historian Misha Glenny the murder in March 1929 of Toni Schlegel, editor of a pro-Yugoslavian newspaper Novosti, brought a " furious response " from the regime.

This Fermi gas model was then used by the British physicist E. C. Stoner in 1929 to calculate the relationship among the mass, radius, and density of white dwarfs, assuming them to be homogenous spheres.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

* 1929 – Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer ( d. 2004 )

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ) is often regarded as the first British sound feature.

Later the same year, the first all-talking British feature, The Clue of the New Pin ( 1929 ) was released.

* 1929 – George Band, British mountaineer ( d. 2011 )

* 1929 – Len Deighton, British author

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

* 1843 – Frederick Abberline, British police investigator ( d. 1929 )

Demands for dominion status was rejected by the British in 1929.

* John Cunningham Brown ( 1844 – 1929 ), Irish-born newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia

* 1929 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist

* 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister ( b. 1929 )

* 1929 – Dickie Valentine, British singer ( d. 1971 )

* 1929 – Robert Westall, British author ( d. 1993 )

* 1853 – Lillie Langtry, British actress ( d. 1929 )

The original Roman vase has remained in the British Museum ever since 1810, apart from three years ( 1929 – 32 ) when William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland put it up for sale at Christie's where it failed to reach its reserve.

After several unsuccessful attempts, Nadir and his brothers finally raised a sufficiently large force — mostly from the British side of the Durand Line — to take Kabul on October 10, 1929.