The Jazz Singer 3-Disc Collector’s Edition and Blu-ray Digibook

The Jazz Singer 3-Disc Collector’s Edition and Blu-ray Digibook

The Jazz Singer (1927) (<— click to read my review) – first time on Blu-ray; this edition includes a book with nearly 90 pages of historical extras: reproductions photos the film’s history and more to mark 2013’s year-long 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Studios. Special features include a commentary from film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano vintage shorts cartoons and a 1947 radio show adaptation featuring Al Jolson.

Disc two contains a full-length documentary feature The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk. The 93-minute film covers the 30+ year struggle to successfully unite sound and image on motion picture screens. The fascinating narrative of failures and triumphs is propelled by insights from notable film historians as well as interviews from many talents who reveal their personal experiences of this tumultuous period in film history.

The third disc includes more than four hours of extraordinary Vitaphone shorts unique and historic rarities that capture performances from the era’s great entertainment legends of the era: Burns & Allen Baby Rose Marie Weber & Fields Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields and many others.

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