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The Jazz Singer 80th Anniversary 3-Disc Collector's Edition
The Jazz Singer (1927) - featuring a new digital transfer and refurbished soundtrack! Disc two contains a new full-length documentary feature, The Dawn of Sound, commissioned by Warner Home Video specifically for this very special DVD release. 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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