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Jazz Singer [80th Anniversary] [Deluxe Edition] [3 Discs]

Features:
  • New digital transfer and immaculately refurbished soundtrack from restored picture elements and original Vitaphone-Sound-on-Disc recordings
  • Commentary by Ron Hutchinson, founder of The Vitaphone Projects and Nighthawks bandleader Vince Giordano
  • Vintage Al Jolson shorts, radio show adaptation and movie trailer gallery
  • Classic homage cartoon "I Love to Singa"
  • New feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How the Movies Learned to Talk
  • Surviving sound excerpts from 1929's Gold Diggers of Broadway
  • Studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era
  • Over 3½ hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts starring the greats of vaudeville and the early sound era, many recently recoved and restored after being thought lost forever
  • 10 behind-the-scenes photo cards
  • 12-page Vitaphone program
  • 20-page souvenir program
  • 4-page theater herald
  • 16-page book with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide
  • Post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson and Jack Warner
View menus
    • Disc #1 -- The Jazz Singer - The Movie
    • Play Movie
    • Scene Selections
    • Special Features
    • Commentary by Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano
    • Al Jolson in A Plantation Act
    • An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
    • I Love to Singa
    • Hollywood Handicap
    • A Day at Santa Anita
    • 6/2/1947 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast
    • Jolson Trailer Gallery
    • Play All
    • The Jazz Singer (1927)
    • The Singing Fool (1928)
    • Mammy (1930)
    • Wonder Bar (1934)
    • Go Into Your Dance (1935)
    • The Singing Kid (1936)
    • Languages
    • Spoken Languages: English
    • Subtitles: English
    • Subtitles: English (For the Hearing Impaired)
    • Subtitles: Français
    • Subtitles: Español
    • Subtitles: Off
    • Disc #2 -- The Jazz Singer - The Early Sound Era
    • The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
    • Chapter Index
    • Play
    • Gold Diggers of Broadway Excerpts
    • Play All
    • Tip Toe Through the Tulips
    • Finale
    • The Voice From the Screen
    • Finding His Voice
    • The Voice That Thrilled the World
    • Okay for Sound
    • When the Talkies Were Young
    • Disc #3 -- The Jazz Singer - Astonishing Rarities
    • Play All
    • Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act: "Behind the Lines"
    • Bernardo De Pace: "The Wizard of the Mandolin"
    • Van and Schenck: "The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland"
    • Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields With the Music Boxes
    • Hazel Green & Company
    • The Night Court
    • The Police Quartette
    • Ray Mayer & Edith Evans in "When East Meets West"
    • Adele Rowland: "Stories in Song"
    • Stoll, Flynn & Company: The "Jazzmania Quintette"
    • The Ingenues: "The Band Beautiful"
    • The Foy Family in "Chips of the Old Block"
    • Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs
    • Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
    • Shaw & Lee: "The Beau Brummels"
    • Roof Garden Revue Directed by Larry Ceballos
    • Trixie Friganza in "My Bag O' Tricks"
    • Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts
    • Sol Violinsky: "The Eccentric Entertainer"
    • Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr: "At the Seashore"
    • Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats
    • Baby Rose Marie: "The Child Wonder"
    • Burns & Allen in "Lambchops"
    • Joe Frisco in "The Happy Hottentots"
View chapters
    • Disc #1 -- The Jazz Singer - The Movie
    • 1. Overture [4:31]
    • 2. Credits [1:00]
    • 3. Ragtime Jakie [4:54]
    • 4. Our Boy Has Gone [3:48]
    • 5. I Have No Son [3:14]
    • 6. Dirty Hands, Dirty Face [4:29]
    • 7. Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye) [2:31]
    • 8. Tear in Your Voice [1:41]
    • 9. Fallen for a Shiksa? [2:44]
    • 10. Mary's Broadway Break [3:14]
    • 11. Kaddish Memories [2:26]
    • 12. Jakie's Broadway Break [3:22]
    • 13. Homecoming [6:06]
    • 14. Blue Skies [2:53]
    • 15. Leave My House! [5:18]
    • 16. Rehearsal [3:25]
    • 17. Illness Strikes [7:13]
    • 18. If He Would Only Sing [3:28]
    • 19. Cry of My Race [5:07]
    • 20. Come Home, Jakie [4:03]
    • 21. Mother of Mine, I Still Have You [4:44]
    • 22. Reconciliation [3:23]
    • 23. Jakie's Choice [3:36]
    • 24. Kol Nidre [3:38]
    • 25. My Mammy [2:25]
    • 26. Exit Music [2:44]
    • Disc #2 -- The Jazz Singer - The Early Sound Era
    • 1. Introduction [3:08]
    • 2. Thomas Edison [4:45]
    • 3. D.W. Griffith [2:09]
    • 4. Vitaphone System [5:25]
    • 5. DeForest-Case System [5:14]
    • 6. Phonofilms [5:58]
    • 7. Vitaphone Shorts [4:18]
    • 8. Don Juan Et Al. [3:16]
    • 9. Sound Newsreels [4:51]
    • 10. Al Jolson [2:57]
    • 11. Triumph and Tragedy [5:13]
    • 12. Box-Office Success [5:43]
    • 13. Musical Reviews [6:11]
    • 14. Rumor That Will Not Die [5:18]
    • 15. Stars in Transition [5:02]
    • 16. Garbo Talks [4:55]
    • 17. Last Holdout [2:45]
    • 18. Pioneering Efforts [5:48]
Year released: 1927
MPAA Rating: [ NR ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 89
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng/Fre/Spa
Studio: Warner Home Video