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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several
The First Auto: June 27, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized score Extant Wings [F 3] August 12, 1927 Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation: Synchronized score Film-only The Bush Leaguer: August 20, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized score Audio-only Slightly Used: September 3, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized score Audio-only [Disc 5 extant] 7th Heaven [F 4]
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and/or talking movies produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and its subsidiary First National (FN) for the years 1927–1931. Synchronized Sound Films
Featured Cast Genre Note Jake the Plumber: Edward Ludwig: Jesse De Vorska, Sharon Lynn: Comedy: FBO: Jaws of Steel: Ray Enright: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Helen Ferguson: Adventure: Warner Bros. The Jazz Singer: Alan Crosland: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland: Drama: Warner Bros. First feature length "talkie"; 1 Academy Award ...
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited sound sequences) was The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927. [2] A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone , which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller [2] directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard.Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, [3] the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
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Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer becomes the first box-office hit and popularizes sound motion pictures. It is the highest-grossing movie up to this time. [citation needed] December 3 – The silent short Putting Pants on Philip, the first official billing of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, is released in the United States.