The Jazz Singer

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Rewatched (2025) (41 movies items)

" The Jazz Singer is about Jakie, a cantor's son who loves jazz, and is the first full-length film to use sound for songs. "

1st Academy Awards Power Rankings (25 movies items)

"Won: Honorary Oscar for outstanding achievement in Sound Production. Nominated: Best Adaptation, Best Engineering Effects* * Uncredited Though this film does have similar trappings to The Racket in that it's probably a bit too reliant on dialogue at a time when films were just starting to find a voice, The Jazz Singer is the film that finally gave silent films a voice at long last, albeit in brief intervals throughout. We even got actual lines of spoken dialogue between the musical numbers"

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1001 Movies ... my own version (1920's) (90 movies items)

" Notes: It is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was rather surprised by how little dialogue was actually involved in the damned thing after all and they still used intertitles for most of the duration. Basically, the sound was mostly used for the songs performed by Al Jolson. The songs were actually all pretty good by the way. And, yet, during these songs, Jolson did improvise some dialogues and it was basically the first"

1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)

" Notes: It is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was rather surprised by how little dialogue was actually involved in the damned thing after all and they still used intertitles for most of the duration. Basically, the sound was mostly used for the songs performed by Al Jolson. The songs were actually all pretty good by the way. And, yet, during these songs, Jolson did improvise some dialogues and it was basically the first"

A classic

“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was available on YouTube, I thought I might as well check it out, especially since it had quite an impact. Indeed, it is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was rather surprised by how little dialogue was actually involved in the damned thing after all and they still used intertitles for most of the duration. Basically, the sound was mostly used for the songs performed by Al Jolson. The songs were actually all pretty good by the way. And, yet, during these songs, Jolson did improvise some dialogues and it was basically the first time ever that you had some audible dialogue. Well, I thought that even when you watch this movie almost 100 years later, the ” read more

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Film Diary 2023 (74 movies items)

"25.11. This film has a lot of historical value, but beyond that it's really not good."

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Cinematic Firsts (217 movies items)

" *First feature film with recorded dialogue, using the Vitaphone system."

“(OK) Not just the first film with sound, but a special film with social topic (the persistance of jewish tradition against free will of a young talented man). It's meaningfull that the only dialogued sound scene of the film is between Jolson and his mother: melodrama and clashes between generations, are more important than romance and intigue...” read more

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