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The Jazz Singer (1927) More at IMDbPro »

All-new feature digital transfer and immaculately refurbished soundtrack from restored picture elements and original Vitaphone-Sound-on-Disc recordings

Collection of rare cartoons and shorts: I Love to Sing (a classic 1936 WB parody cartoon directed by Tex Avery), Hollywood Handicap (classic M-G-M short with Al Jolson appearance), A Day at Santa Anita (classic Technicolor Warner Bros. short with Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler cameo appearance), Al Jolson in 'A Plantation Act' (1926 Vitaphone short made a year prior to The Jazz Singer), An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Al Jolson Trailer Gallery

All-new feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era: Finding His Voice (1929 Western Electric animated promotional short, produced by Max Fleischer), The Voice That Thrilled The World (Warner Bros. short about sound), Okay for Sound (1946 WB short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Vitaphone), When Talkies Were Young (1955 WB short looking back at the early talkies), The Voice from the Screen (1926 WB 'demonstration' film explores the Vitaphone technology and, looks at the making of a Vitaphone short)

Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts: Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act: "Behind the Lines", Bernado Depace: "Wizard of the Mandolin", Van and Schneck: "The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland", Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, Hazel Green and Company, The Night Court, The Police Quartette, Ray Mayer & Edith Evans: "When East Meets West", Adele Rowland: "Stories in Song", Stoll, Flynn and Company: "The Jazzmania Quintet", The Ingenues in "The Band Beautiful", The Foy Family in "Chips off the Old Block",Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs, Gus Arnheim and His Ambassador,[Shaw and Lee: "The Beau Brummels",Larry Ceballos' Roof Garden Revue, Trixie Friganza in "My Bag O' Tricks", Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts,Sol Violinsky: "The Eccentric Entertainer", Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr in "At the Seashore", Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats, Baby Rose Marie: "The Child Wonder", Burns & Allen in "Lambchops", Joe Frisco in "The Happy Hottentots"

Rarely seen behind-the-scenes photo cards

Original release souvenir program book reproduction

Reproduction of post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson to Jack L. Warner