The jazz singer
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Drama.
Fathers and sons -- Drama.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Jazz musicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Jewish singers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Musical films.
Musicals. -- Feature films.
Video recordings.
Other Subjects
Cantantes -- Nueva York (Estados Unidos) -- Nueva York -- Teatro.
Musicos de jazz -- Nueva York (Estados Unidos) -- Nueva York -- Teatro.

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Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Vitaphone program book ([12] pages ; 18 cm) + 1 book ([16] pages ; 18 cm) + 1 souvenier book ([20] pages ; 18 cm) + 10 behind-the-scenes photograph cards
Language
English
ISBN
1419856227, 9781419856228
UPC
012569798892

Notes

General Note
Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
General Note
Special features (disc 1, 139 min.): optional audio commentary by Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Projects) and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; 4 vintage Al Jolson short films (49 min. total); classic cartoon "I love to singa" (8 min.); Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The jazz singer", also starring Jolson (1947, 58 min.); Jolson trailer gallery (24 min. total).
General Note
Special features (disc 2, 185 min.): "The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk" documentary (2007, 85 min.); surviving excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway" (16 min. total); 5 studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era (84 min.).
General Note
Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults.
Creation/Production Credits
Photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone Orchestra directed by Louis Silvers.
Participants/Performers
Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt.
Description
The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections.
System Details
DVD, region 1, dual-layer; Dolby digital mono.
Language
In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Local note
DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Crosland, A., Cohn, A. A., Jolson, A., McAvoy, M., Oland, W., Besserer, E., Lederer, O., Mohr, H., McCord, H., Silvers, L., & Raphaelson, S. (2007). The jazz singer (Three-disc deluxe edition ; 80th anniversary edition ; standard format (1.33:1).). Warner Home Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alan Crosland et al.. 2007. The Jazz Singer. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alan Crosland et al.. The Jazz Singer Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2007.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Crosland, A., Cohn, A. A., Jolson, A., McAvoy, M., Oland, W., Besserer, E. and Lederer, O. et al (2007). The jazz singer. Three-disc deluxe edn ; 80th anniversary edn ; standard format (1.33:1). Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Crosland, Alan, et al. The Jazz Singer Three-disc deluxe edition ; 80th anniversary edition ; standard format (1.33:1)., Warner Home Video, 2007.

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