The jazz singer
(2007, original release: 1927)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/JAZZ

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/JAZZ Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
EDITION
80th anniversary deluxe edition, 3-disc deluxe edition
DESCRIPTION

3 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)

ISBN/ISSN
1419856227 79889, 9781419856228, 6311407167 :, 012569798892
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Release date: Oct. 16, 2007

A Jewish cantor's son breaks with his family to become a popular music singer

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927

A photo-dramatic production of Samson Raphaelson's play

Disc 2 and 3 special features include over 3 hours of restored Vitaphone comedy and music shorts and the feature-length documentary: The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk

Accompanied by: 10 behind-the-scenes photo cards and reproductions of a Vitaphone program, a souvenir program, a theater herald, and a post-production telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner

Directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn ; photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone orchestra directed by Louis Silvers

Al Jolson, with Mary McAvoy and Warner Oland

Not rated

DVD; Dolby digital

In English with optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

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