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Author:

Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927)

Title:

The jazz singer [videorecording DVD] / a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn.

Format:

[videorecording DVD] /

Edition:

Three-disc deluxe ed.; 80th anniversary ed.; standard format (1.33:1).

Publisher:

Warner Home Video,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

3 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 10 photo cards (18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a Vitaphone program ([12] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a souvenir program ([20] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a Theater Herald leaflet ([4] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 vintage documents reproduction booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner (18 cm.)

Subject:

Jazz musicians--New York--New York--Drama.
Jewish singers--New York--New York--Drama.
Fathers and sons--Drama.
Músicos de jazz--Nueva York--Nueva York--Teatro.
Cantantes--Nueva York--Nueva York--Teatro.
Jazz musicians--New York--New York--Drama.
Singers, Jewish--New York--New York--Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs held by the Library.

Other Authors:

Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936.
Cohn, Alfred Abraham, 1880-1951.
Jolson, Al, d. 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)

Other Titles:

Dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk.

Notes:

Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt. 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.

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.) --
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.).

Summary:

The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections.

ISBN:

9781419856228
1419856227

OCLC:

(OCoLC)156980173

UPC:

012569798892

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