| Edition |
Three-disc deluxe edition. |
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80th anniversary edition. |
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Standard version (1.33:1). |
| Description |
3 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 10 photograph cards (18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a Vitaphone program ([12] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a souvenir program ([20] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a Theater Herald leaflet ([4] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 vintage documents reproduction booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner (18 cm) |
| Playing Time |
013600 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
Dolby Digital |
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laser optical |
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video file DVD video region 1 |
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Motion pictures |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, dual-layer; Dolby digital mono. |
| Cast |
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Joseff Rosenblatt. |
| Credits |
Photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone Orchestra directed by Louis Silvers. |
| Note |
Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. |
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Special features (disc 1, 139 min.): optional audio commentary by Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Projects) and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; 4 vintage Al Jolson short films (49 min. total); classic cartoon "I love to singa" (8 min.); Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The jazz singer", also starring Jolson (1947, 58 min.); Jolson trailer gallery (24 min. total). |
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Special features (disc 2, 185 min.): "The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk" documentary (2007, 85 min.); surviving excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway" (16 min. total); 5 studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era (84 min.). |
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Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults. |
| Audience |
Not rated by the MPAA. |
| Summary |
The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The jazz singer (96 min., including overture & exit music) -- A plantation act (1926, 10 min.) -- An intimate dinner in celebration of Warner Bros. silver jubilee (1930, 11 min.) -- Hollywood handicap (1938, 10 min.) -- A day at Santa Anita (1937, 18 min.) -- I love to singa (1936, 8 min.) -- The jazz singer [Lux Radio Theatre adaptation] (1947, 58 min.) -- The jazz singer [trailer] (1927, 7 min.) -- The singing fool [trailer] (1928, 1 min.) -- Mammy [trailer] (1930, 5 min.) -- Wonder bar [trailer] (1934, 4 min.) -- Go into your dance [trailer] (1935, 3 min.) -- The singing kid [trailer] (1936, 4 min.). |
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Disc 2. The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk documentary (2007, 85 min.) -- Gold diggers of Broadway [excerpts] (16 min.) -- The voice from the screen (1926, 15 min.) -- Finding his voice (1929, 11 min.) -- The voice that thrilled the world (1943, 18 min.) -- Okay for sound (1946, 20 min.) -- When the talkies were young (1955, 20 min.). |
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Disc 3. Behind the lines (1926, 8 min.) -- Bernado De Pace : the wizard of the mandolin (1927, 7 min.) -- Gus Van and Joe Schenck : the pennant winning battery of Songland (9 min., 1929) -- Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes (1928, 10 min.) -- Hazel Green & Company (1927, 8 min.) -- The night court (1927, 10 min.) -- The Police Quartette (1927, 7 min.) -- When East meets West (1928, 9 min.) -- Adele Rowland : stories in song (1928, 10 min.) -- The Jazzmania Quintette (1928, 10 min.) -- The Ingenues : the Band Beautiful (1928, 9 min.) -- Chips of the old block (1928, 8 min.) -- Dick Rich and his Melodious Monarchs (1928, 8 min.) -- Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors (1928, 9 min.) -- The Beau Brummels (1928, 8 min.) -- Roof Garden Revue (1929, 10 min.) -- My bag o' tricks (1929, 10 min.) -- Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts (1929, 7 min.) -- Sol Violinsky : the eccentric entertainer (1929, 8 min.) -- At the seashore (1929, 9 min.) -- Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats (1929, 7 min.) -- Baby Rose Marie, the child wonder (1929, 8 min.) -- Lambchops (1929, 8 min.) -- The happy Hottentots (1930, 11 min.). |
| Language |
In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles. |
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Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. |
| Subject |
Jazz musicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Jazz musicians. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Subject |
Jewish singers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Jewish singers. |
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Fathers and sons -- Drama.
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Fathers and sons. |
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Acculturation -- United States -- Drama.
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Acculturation. |
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United States. |
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Jews, East European -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Jews, East European. |
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Cantors (Judaism) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Cantors (Judaism) |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Musical films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Musical films.
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Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction films.
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Fiction films.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936, film director.
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Cohn, Alfred A., 1880-1951, screenwriter.
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Jolson, Al, 1886-1950, actor.
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McAvoy, May, 1901-1984, actor.
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Oland, Warner, 1880-1938, actor.
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Besserer, Eugenie, 1870-1934, actor.
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Lederer, Otto, 1886-1965, actor.
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Rosenblatt, Josef, 1882-1933, actor.
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Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974, director of photography.
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McCord, Harold, 1893-1957, editor of moving image work.
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Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954, composer (expression), conductor.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983.
Day of Atonement.
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Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), production company.
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Vitaphone Corp., production company.
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Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor, publisher.
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| Added Title |
Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013267
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Dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk.
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| ISBN |
1419856227 |
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9781419856228 |
| Standard No. |
012569798892 |
| Music No. |
79889 Warner Home Video |
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