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