Movie Trivia

Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

Since pippin mentioned silent films in her last post, I figured this would be a nice easy question to bring up.

Q: What was the first full-length movie to use synchronized sound?

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

I'm reasonably certain it was The Jazz Singer.

They make lots of todo about it in Singin' in the Rain! :-)

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

Answer: The Jazz Singer

Although there were many movies prior to The Jazz Singer dating  all the way back to the late 1800's, it wasn't until The Jazz Singer in 1927 did we have fully syncrhonized sound.  The Vitaphone process was actually used a year earlier on Don Juan, a silent film with a scored background.  The Warner studio took Vitaphone a step forward by capturing not only music, but voice too, and sychronizing it to the film in Jazz Singer.

As mentioned in this thread, Singin' in the Rain touched on many of the issues surrounding the implementation of sound in movies.  Not only were microphones large and hard to hide, they often picked up the sounds of people on set and the film camera itself.