Programming note: “Warner Bros — You Must Remember This”

The wonderful PBS series American Masters to air a 5-hour documentary “Warner Bros — You Must Remember This” this week. Scheduled to air September 23 and 24 from 9–11 PM and September 25 from 9–10 PM, however you should check your local listings as air dates and times vary from PBS station to station. From the series PBS website:

The colorful 85-year legacy of Warner Bros. is documented in an unprecedented series, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, a presentation of AMERICAN MASTERS. The five-hour film is a Lorac production in partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment and premieres nationally, September 23, 24 and 25, 2008 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Award-winning filmmaker and film critic Richard Schickel is the director, writer and producer. Clint Eastwood is the executive producer and narrator.

Through movie clips, rare archival interviews, newly photographed material, and insightful on-camera discussions with talent such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Sidney Lumet, Jack Nicholson, and many others, You Must Remember This gives us the history of 20th century America on the big screen. Each episode focuses on a specific period in the studio’s momentous history: the silent movie days and the development of sound, the Depression, World War II, the advent of television, the onset of new technologies, and the broadening and diversification of media companies in recent years.

Looks like a must-see for any fan of movie and Hollywood history. And while you’re at it, you can take a Warner Bros movie quiz, featuring questions like this:

Name the actors and Warner Bros. film associated with the quote: “You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.”

a) James Cagney to Joan Leslie, Yankee Doodle Dandy

b) Joan Blondell to Dick Powell, Gold Diggers of 1933

c) Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca

d) Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart, To Have and Have Not