"Part-talkie A part-talkie is a partly, and most often primarily, silent film which includes one or more synchronous sound sequences with audible dialog or singing. During the silent portions lines of dialog are presented as ""titles"" -- printed text briefly filling the screen—and the soundtrack is used only to supply musical accompaniment and sound effects. In the case of feature films made in the United States, nearly all such hybrid films date to the 1927-1929 period of transition from ""silents"" to full-fledged ""talkies"" with audible dialog throughout. It took about a year and a half for a transition period for"
"Jazz Singer"" was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shirō Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately. Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933. At this time, the job of voice actor did"
"year, it became one of the first songs to be featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson performed it in ""The Jazz Singer"". The song was recorded for all of the major and dime store labels of the time. Another version of the song was recorded by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra in 1935 (Victor 25136). 1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title along with two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching #8 and #9 on the pop charts, respectively. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye performed"
"taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as ""talking pictures"", or ""talkies"", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was ""The Jazz Singer"", released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures. By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United States, they helped secure"
"feature-length movie with dialogue sequences, ""The Jazz Singer"" starring Al Jolson, was released on October 6, 1927. Within a year of its success, most United States movie theaters had installed sound film equipment. Walt Disney apparently intended to take advantage of this new trend and, arguably, managed to succeed. Most other cartoon studios were still producing silent products and so were unable to effectively act as competition to Disney. As a result, Mickey would soon become the most prominent animated character of the time. Walt Disney soon worked on adding sound to both ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"" (which"
"in ""A Plantation Act"", a musical short released on October 7, 1926. On October 6, 1927, ""The Jazz Singer"" premiered at the Warner Theater in New York City, broke box-office records, established Warner Bros. as a major player in Hollywood, and is traditionally credited with single-handedly launching the talkie revolution. At first, the production of Vitaphone shorts and the recording of orchestral scores was strictly a New York phenomenon, taking advantage of the bountiful supply of stage and concert hall talent there, but the Warners soon migrated some of this activity to their more spacious facilities on the West Coast."
"The Jazz Singer (Ford Startime) The Jazz Singer is a videotaped adaptation, starring Jerry Lewis, of Samson Raphaelson's play of the same name. It was broadcast on October 13, 1959, as the second episode of the American television anthology series on NBC, ""Ford Startime"". Cantor Rabinowitz (Eduard Franz) is upset that his son Joey (Jerry Lewis) has left home to pursue a career as a singer/comedian after showing no interest in carrying on the family's tradition of being Cantors in the synagogue. After five generations of doing so, it appears that Joey is more interested in making jokes and singing"
"April 1927, the Big Five studios (First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film company's could test sound with Western Electric as well; the Warners were even forced to sell some of their stock to Harry Cohn, the head of the independent film company Columbia Pictures. Eventually, Harry agreed to accept Sam's demands to continue with Vitaphone productions, and the studio soon began production of the first talkie, ""The Jazz Singer""; soon after"
"shorts; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was ""The Jazz Singer"", released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures. By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United States, they helped secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful cultural/commercial systems (see Cinema of the United States). In Europe (and, to a lesser degree,"
"to accept Sam's demands, and the Warner brothers pushed ahead with a new Vitaphone feature, based on a Broadway play and starring Al Jolson. ""The Jazz Singer"" broke box-office records, established Warner Bros. as a major player in Hollywood, and single-handedly launched the talkie revolution. In 1925, after years of bachelorhood, Warner met eighteen-year-old ""Ziegfeld Follies"" performer and actress Lina Basquette while spending time in New York visiting the Bell Laboratories. The two began an intense love affair. On July 4, 1925, the two were married. While Warner's younger brother Jack did not object to Basquette's Catholicism, the rest of"
"had a significant number of orchestras, these were broken down either by their location, or their style and were highly coveted positions in the music industry. The decline in silent films meant that cinemas employed fewer musicians, this was due to the rise of 'talkies' which meant that the cinemas did not need musicians as all sound was pre-recorded. ""The Jazz Singer"" was the first of the talkies, and it aired in the USA in 1927, by 1929 Fox had stopped making silent films, and other film companies followed their lead soon after. There was a decline in membership to"
"cents, while the price at my theatre was $3.00."" As the truly pivotal event, Crafton points to the national release of the film's sound version in early 1928—he dates it to January, Block and Wilson to February 4. In March, Warners announced that ""The Jazz Singer"" was playing at a record 235 theaters (though many could still show it only silently). In May, a consortium including the leading Hollywood studios signed up with Western Electric's licensing division, ERPI, for sound conversion. In July, Warner Bros. released the first all-talking feature, ""Lights of New York"", a musical crime melodrama. On September"
"The Jazz Singer (soundtrack) The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond from 1980, which served as the soundtrack album to the 1980 remake of the film ""The Jazz Singer"". The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records, instead of his then-usual Columbia Records, because the film was produced by EMI Films, owned by the parent company of the label for which the soundtrack was released. The soundtrack was re-released in February 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States and Sony elsewhere. After Diamond signed with Capitol Records, this album was reissued by Capitol globally"
"of the aged and ailing cantor battling his son, had played the same role in the similar theatrical film version of the story starring Danny Thomas that had been released just seven years earlier, in 1952. The first official home video release, a DVD including both the kinescope and color videotape material from Lewis' personal holdings, was released on February 7, 2012. The Jazz Singer (Ford Startime) The Jazz Singer is a videotaped adaptation, starring Jerry Lewis, of Samson Raphaelson's play of the same name. It was broadcast on October 13, 1959, as the second episode of the American television"
"first talking feature-length motion picture, ""The Jazz Singer"" was filmed in 1927. It was also the studio for radio station KFWB in its early years as Warner Bros.' Los Angeles radio station. In 1930, Warner Bros. announced the consolidation of its executive offices with those of First National Pictures, with the executive offices being moved from the Sunset Boulevard studio to the First National Studios in Burbank, California. Warner also began moving its filming to the Burbank studios in 1930 and 1931, though the Sunset Boulevard studios remained in active use during the 1930s both for motion picture filming and"
"1952. Warner Brothers re-teamed Curtiz and Thomas in another project: the 25th-anniversary remake of the first talking film, ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927), with Thomas in the Al Jolson role, ""The Jazz Singer"". Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) is the prolific tunesmith, whose fortunes take an upswing in 1908 when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy (Doris Day). Kahn's career ascends to spectacular heights via such hits as ""Pretty Baby"", ""My Buddy"", ""Toot, Toot, Tootsie"", and ""Makin' Whoopee"", only to go into eclipse when he loses his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash. An album of the same name"
"In 1921 he recorded a hit single, ""The Toastmaster."" He sometimes appeared in blackface in his vaudeville shows. In 1924, he appeared in a brief comedy sketch, possibly the telephone sketch described above, in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. In 1925, he emerged as one of the most popular leading men on Broadway with the starring role in the stage production of ""The Jazz Singer"". The success of the show prompted Warner Bros.—after their success with ""Don Juan"" (1926) with music and sound effects only—to adapt ""The Jazz Singer"" as the first ""talkie"" with dialogue"
"generally seen as the beginning of Hollywood's Golden Age and the final major steps in establishing studio system control of the American film business. The success of 1927's ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature-length ""talkie"" (in fact, the majority of its scenes did not have live-recorded sound) gave a big boost to the then midsized Warner Bros. studio. The following year saw both the general introduction of sound throughout the industry and two more smashes for Warners: ""The Singing Fool"", ""The Jazz Singer""'s even more profitable follow-up, and Hollywood's first ""all-talking"" feature, ""Lights of New York"". Just as significant were"
"""Love on the Rocks"", ""Hello Again"" and ""America"" reaching #2, #6, and #8 respectively. The Jazz Singer (soundtrack) The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond from 1980, which served as the soundtrack album to the 1980 remake of the film ""The Jazz Singer"". The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records, instead of his then-usual Columbia Records, because the film was produced by EMI Films, owned by the parent company of the label for which the soundtrack was released. The soundtrack was re-released in February 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States and Sony"
"""talkies"" were introduced in the sound film movie industry. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system. After the release of ""The Jazz Singer"" in 1927, ""talkies"" became more and more commonplace. Within a decade, popular widespread production of silent films had ceased. Cheap land, good year-round climate and large natural spaces prompted the growing film industry to begin migrating"
"descriptive writer Ketèlbey really does take some beating. He has the happy knack of combining infinitely melodious themes and the cleverly diluted likeness of the authentic atmosphere."" The introduction of talking films in 1927 with ""The Jazz Singer"" and the subsequent growth of the medium had a serious impact on composers and music publishers involved in the film industry as it heralded a decline in the sales of sheet music. Although Ketèlbey's income from this source declined, the period was also marked by a rise in the popularity of the radio and gramophones and his new compositions were successful with"
"Jazz Singer"" have been produced: a 1952 remake, starring Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee; a 1959 television remake, starring Jerry Lewis; and a 1980 remake starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, and Laurence Olivier. ""The Jazz Singer"" was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of ""Lux Radio Theater"", both starring Jolson, reprising his screen role. The first aired August 10, 1936; the second on June 2, 1947. The Jazz Singer (play) The Jazz Singer is a play written by Samson Raphaelson, based on his short story ""The Day of Atonement"". Producers Albert Lewis and Max Gordon staged it"
"Jackson in the 1992 miniseries """", as well as starring on the television sitcoms ""Thea"" (1993–1994) and ""Smart Guy"" (1997–1999). Jason was also the singing voice of young Simba in Walt Disney Feature Animation's 1994 film The Lion King.[1] In 2002, Weaver appeared in ""Drumline"" with Nick Cannon, followed by a role in ""The Ladykillers"" in 2004. In 2004, he also was a featured artist in the song One Call Away as well as in the music video that also starred Keshia Knight Pulliam and AND1 baller Phillip ""Hot Sauce"" Champion. In 2006, Weaver was featured in a supporting role"
"it has no spoken dialogue. He was chosen to direct Al Jolson in ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927). The film would make him famous as the first of the new talkies that changed the course of motion pictures. Crosland died in 1936 at the age of 41 as a result of an automobile accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His grave remained unmarked for 67 years until a headstone was donated by The Hollywood Underground in 2003. His son, Alan Crosland Jr. (1918–2001), would also have a successful career as a television"
"the expressions on their faces, when Joley spoke to them ... you'd have thought they were listening to the voice of God.'"" ""Everybody was mad for the talkies,"" said movie star Gregory Peck in a ""Newsweek"" interview. ""I remember 'The Jazz Singer,' when Al Jolson just burst into song, and there was a little bit of dialogue. And when he came out with 'Mammy,' and went down on his knees to his Mammy, it was just dynamite."" This opinion is shared by Mast and Kawin: With Warner Bros. Al Jolson made his first ""all-talking"" picture, ""The Singing Fool"" (1928), the"
"and Spencer Tracy also first appeared on screen in ten-minute dramatic and comedy sketches, as did a few silent stars making the transition like Blanche Sweet. Al Jolson filmed ""A Plantation Act"" in August 1926, a full year before ""The Jazz Singer"". When Warner Brothers decided to promote the feature as Jolson’s talkie debut, the earlier short was removed from circulation. Initially thought lost, it was restored, in part by the Vitaphone Project’s efforts, for a laser disc set in the 1990s and later released on DVD with the feature. At the time, there was much fear that these little"
"darkness; in a variable-area process, the lines are of varying width.) By October, the FBO-RCA alliance would lead to the creation of Hollywood's newest major studio, RKO Pictures. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. had released three more talkies, all profitable, if not at the level of ""The Jazz Singer"": In March, ""Tenderloin"" appeared; it was billed by Warners as the first feature in which characters spoke their parts, though only 15 of its 88 minutes had dialogue. ""Glorious Betsy"" followed in April, and ""The Lion and the Mouse"" (31 minutes of dialogue) in May. On July 6, 1928, the first all-talking feature,"
"Jazz Baby Jazz Baby is a song published in 1919, written by Blanche Merrill and M.K. Jerome. The rights to the song were acquired by the Washburn-Crosby Company, manufacturers of Wheaties cereal, in 1926, for the purpose of using it as an advertising jingle. Many different lyrics promoting the cereal were applied to the tune over the next few generations. The song was revived in its original form and context for the 1967 musical film ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", sung by Carol Channing. It is on the album from Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry (""Hell Fighters"") Band, vocals by C."
"songbook agent, actor, and manager (including the Palace Theater in Buffalo, New York), he founded Pacific Title & Art Studio in 1919, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films. As talking pictures (""talkies"") replaced them in 1929 and 1930, Schlesinger looked for ways to capitalize on the new technology and stay in business. Some film historians claim that he helped finance the Warner Brothers' first talkie, ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927). He then secured a contract with the studio to produce its brand-new ""Looney Tunes"" series, and he signed animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to"
"(The Jazz Singer was released in 1927 in US) that comedy films started being produced in France from the 1930s. When the sound entered cinema in 1927, comedy films returned to popularity, due to dialogue now being available for usage. As the majority of France lived in rural areas during the 1930s, most films took place in similar areas. After the Second World War, French society went under many changes during the 1940s to the 1970s, and thus it had a big impact on the comedies of this period. A number of French comedians were able to find an English"
"was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of ""culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"" motion pictures. In 1998, the film was chosen in voting conducted by the American Film Institute as one of the best American films of all time, ranking at number ninety. In 2007, a three-disc deluxe DVD edition of the film was released. The supplemental material includes Jolson's 1926 Vitaphone short, ""A Plantation Act"". Awards Nominations On June 2, 1947, ""The Jazz Singer"" was presented on ""Lux Radio Theatre"" on CBS. The one-hour adaptation starred Jolson and Gail Patrick. The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer is"
"only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well. On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released ""The Jazz Singer"", starring Al Jolson, and a whole new era began, with ""pictures that talked,"" bringing the Studio to the forefront of the film industry. ""The Jazz Singer"" played to standing-room-only crowds throughout the country and earned a special Academy Award for Technical Achievement. Fox, in the forefront of sound film along with Warners, was also acquiring a sizable circuit of movie theaters to exhibit its product. Between late 1928, when RCA's David Sarnoff engineered the creation of the"
"it all: the satisfaction of taking his father's place ""and"" of conquering the Winter Garden. They were, perhaps unwittingly, dramatizing some of their own ambivalence about the debt first-generation Americans owed their parents."" Three subsequent screen versions of ""The Jazz Singer"" have been produced: a 1952 remake, starring Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee; a 1959 television remake, starring Jerry Lewis; and a 1980 remake starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, and Laurence Olivier. ""The Jazz Singer"" was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, both starring Al Jolson, reprising his screen role. The first aired"