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Author:

Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927) 467972

Title:

The jazz singer [blu-ray] / Warner Bros. Pictures and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn ; directed by Alan Crosland.

Format:

[blu-ray] /

Publisher:

Warner Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

3 videodiscs (film duration: 96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Jazz musicians--New York--New York--Drama.
Jewish singers--New York--New York--Drama.
Cantors (Judaism)--New York--New York--Drama.
Jews, East European--New York--New York--Drama.
Acculturation--United States--Drama.
Musical films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Cohn, Alfred A., 1880-1951, screenwriter. 556317
Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936, film director. 127498
Jolson, Al, 1886-1950, actor. 31637
McAvoy, May, 1901-1984, actor. 128885
Oland, Warner, 1880-1938, actor. 129566
Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974, director of photography. 467978
McCord, Harold, 1893-1957, editor of moving image work.
Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954, composer (expression) 467979
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983. Jazz singer.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), presenter. 81773
Vitaphone Corp., presenter. 170173
Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor. 186901
Turner Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher. 145140

Other Titles:

Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927) 467972
Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927). Polish.
Dawn of sound (Motion picture)

Notes:

Title from opening screens. Wide screen (1.37:1). Main feature on Blu-ray. Special features on 2 DVDs. Polish voiceover reads the intertitles. "A photo-dramatic production of Samson Raphaelson's play"--Container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. Bonus Blu-ray content: audio commentary; cartoon shorts; AN intimate dinner in celebration of Warner Bros.' Silver jubilee; 1947 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast starring Al Jolson; trailer. Bonus DVD content: The dawn of sound : how movies learned to talk (documentary); sound excerpts from 1929's Gold diggers of Broadway; studio shorts on talking pictures; Vitaphone musical shorts. Accompanying booklet bound in container: includes reproductions fo vintage documents; history of talkies; bios of performers. Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland.

Summary:

Follows a cantor's son who turns his back on family tradition and becomes a cabaret-entertainer.

ISBN:

1622241975
9781622241972

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842385288

UPC:

883929265053

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)