The jazz singer [videorecording] / a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn.
Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936.; Cohn, Alfred A. 1880-1951.; Jolson, Al, 1886-1950.; McAvoy, May, 1901-1984.; Oland, Warner, 1880-1938.; Besserer, Eugenie, 1870-1934.; Lederer, Otto, 1886-1965.; Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974.; McCord, Harold, 1893-1957.; Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954.; Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983. Day of atonement.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Vitaphone Corp.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
2007
PN1997 .J3992 2007
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Title The jazz singer [videorecording] / a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn.
Uniform Title Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927)
Edition Three-disc deluxe ed.; 80th anniversary ed.; standard format (1.33:1).
ISBN 1419856227
9781419856228
Imprint Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2007.
Language English
Language Note In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Description 3 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Other Standard Identifiers 012569798892
Call Number PN1997 .J3992 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/72
Distributor No. 79889 Warner Home Video
Summary The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections.
Note Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
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).
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.).
Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults.
Access Note Authorized for private home use only.
Credits Photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone Orchestra directed by Louis Silvers.
Performer Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt.
Cast Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt.
Audience Not rated by the MPAA.
System Details Note DVD, region 1, dual-layer; Dolby digital mono.
Added Author Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936.
Cohn, Alfred A. 1880-1951.
Jolson, Al, 1886-1950.
McAvoy, May, 1901-1984.
Oland, Warner, 1880-1938.
Besserer, Eugenie, 1870-1934.
Lederer, Otto, 1886-1965.
Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974.
McCord, Harold, 1893-1957.
Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954.
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983. Day of atonement.
Added Corporate Author Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Vitaphone Corp.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Includes Dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk.
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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.)


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.)


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.).

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