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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
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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
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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"
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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
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