A Plantation Act
Dressed in overalls and wearing black-face makeup, Jolson sings three of his hit songs. For the complete list, follow the soundtrack link.
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"There is more than one claimant to the title of the world's first sound film. Strictly, Edison had managed it for a few seconds, back in the old century. Then there was the full-length 'Don Juan' feature, with synchronised orchestra but no speech. And finally Al Jolson in 'The Jazz Singer', basically a silent, but with several songs and just a snatch of dialogue, whose legendary opening at Warners Theatre, New York City in October 1927 went down as the official birth of the Talkies. The previous year, Jolson was known to have made a ten-minute film that looked and sou..."
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This film was believed lost for many years. In the 1990s the film element was found in the Library of Congress, having been mislabeled as a trailer for The Jazz Singer (1927). Several months later the Vitaphone disk surfaced from a collector in Maryland, who had retained it despite it having been broken into five pieces. Through extraordinary restoration efforts, the print of the film is in excellent condition with wonderful sound (and no trace of the broken disk).
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Dressed in overalls and wearing black-face makeup, Jolson sings three of his hit songs. For the complete list, follow the soundtrack link.