Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | Dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk.
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| Other uniform titles: | Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936.
Cohn, Alfred A, 1880-1951.
Jolson, Al, 1886-1950.
McAvoy, May, 1901-1984.
Oland, Warner, 1880-1938.
Besserer, Eugenie, 1870-1934.
Lederer, Otto, 1886-1965.
Rosenblatt, Josef, 1882-1933.
Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974.
McCord, Harold, 1893-1957.
Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954.
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983. Day of atonement.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Vitaphone Corp.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| ISBN: | 1419856227
9781419856228
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| Notes: | Booklets contain: 10 photo cards (18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a Vitaphone program ([12] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a souvenir program ([20] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a Theater Herald leaflet ([4] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 vintage documents reproduction booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 reproduction of a telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner (18 cm.).
Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
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).
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.).
Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults.
Photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone Orchestra directed by Louis Silvers.
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt.
DVD, region 1, dual-layer; Dolby digital mono.
In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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| Summary: | The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections.
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| Target Audience: | Not rated by the MPAA.
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| Standard no.: | 012569798892
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| Publisher's no.: | 79889 Warner Home Video
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