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The jazz singer
Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927).
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Jakie Rabinowitz is the son of a Jewish cantor. Turning his back on family tradition, Jakie transforms himself into cabaret-entertainer Jack Robin. When Jack comes home to visit his parents, he is ...
Jakie Rabinowitz is the son of a Jewish cantor. Turning his back on family tradition, Jakie transforms himself into cabaret-entertainer Jack Robin. When Jack comes home to visit his parents, he is warmly greeted by his mother, but is given the cold-shoulder by his father, who feels that Jack is a traitor to his heritage by singing jazz music. On the eve of his biggest show business triumph, Jack receives word that his father is dying. Out of respect, Jack forgoes his opening night to attend Atonement services at the temple and sings the Kol Nidre in his father's place.
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- Creator
- a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn ; directed by Alan Crosland
- Included Titles
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- Gold diggers of Broadway (Motion picture)
- Dawn of sound
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Three-disc deluxe edition ; [80th anniversary]
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
- Physical Details
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- 3 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- ISBNs
- 1419856227, 9781419856228
- OCLC
- ocn156980173
- Credits
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- Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland
- Photography, Hal Mohr ; editor, Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone orchestra director, Louis Silvers
- A photo-dramatic production of Samson Raphaelson's play.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
- Special features: Disc 1: New digital transfer and refurbished soundtrack; commentary by Ron Hutchinson, founder of The Vitaphone Projects and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; vintage Al Jolson short films, radio show adaptation and movie trailer gallery; classic homage cartoon "I love to singa" ; Disc 2: "The dawn of sound: how the movies learned to talk" new feature-length documentary; surviving sound excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway;" studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era ; Disc 3: Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts starring the greats of Vaudeville and the early sound era, many recently recovered and restored after being lost.
- Special features accompanied by: 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 to Jack Warner.
- DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.
- English dialogue, English, French, and Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- 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.)