The Jazz Singer (1927 film)

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American film black-and-white film film musical drama film

The Jazz Singer (1927 film) is a landmark American musical drama widely regarded as the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, marking the dawn of the sound era in cinema.

Aliases (2)

The Jazz Singer ×7
The Jazz Singer (play) ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → black-and-white film → film → musical drama film →
basedOn	The Day of Atonement (short story) → The Jazz Singer (play) →
cinematographyBy	Hal Mohr →
colorProcess	black-and-white →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Alan Crosland →
distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures →
editedBy	Harold McCord →
featuresSong	Blue Skies → Dirty Hands, Dirty Face → Kol Nidre → My Mammy → Toot, Toot, Tootsie →
filmFormat	Vitaphone sound-on-disc →
filmSeries	Vitaphone sound films →
genre	drama film → musical film →
hasTheme	assimilation of Jewish immigrants in America → generational conflict → pursuit of show-business career →
historicalSignificance	early sound feature film →
includedIn	National Film Registry →
languageOfSoundtrack	English →
leadActor	Al Jolson →
mainCharacter	Jack Robin → Jakie Rabinowitz →
musicBy	Louis Silvers →
notableFor	first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences → marking the dawn of the sound era in cinema →
originalLanguage	English →
portrays	conflict between religious tradition and show business →
portraysReligion	Judaism →
producer	Darryl F. Zanuck → Warner Bros. →
productionCompany	Warner Bros. →
releaseDate	1927-10-06 →
releaseYear	1927 →
runtimeMinutes	89 →
screenwriter	Alfred A. Cohn →
setInPeriod	1920s →
starring	Al Jolson → Eugenie Besserer → May McAvoy → Warner Oland →
storyBy	Samson Raphaelson →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al Jolson ("The Jazz Singer") → Alfred A. Cohn ("The Jazz Singer") → Louis Silvers ("The Jazz Singer") →	notableWork
The Jazz Singer (1927 film) ("The Jazz Singer (play)") →	basedOn
The Singing Fool ("The Jazz Singer") →	follows
Lights of New York (1928 film) ("The Jazz Singer") →	precededBy
Al Jolson as Al Stone ("The Jazz Singer") →	relatedWork
Vitaphone →	usedInFilm
Alfred A. Cohn ("The Jazz Singer") →	wrote