WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).

Detailed explanation-2: -The sound for the film was recorded by British-born George Groves, who had also worked on Don Juan. To direct, the studio chose Alan Crosland, who already had two Vitaphone films to his credit: Don Juan and Old San Francisco, which opened while The Jazz Singer was in production.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length movie with spoken dialogue and-though it was neither the first sound on film nor the first film with talking throughout, and its minstrel-show plot doesn’t exactly stand up to modern scrutiny-it was one of the most important movies ever made.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first commercial feature film to have actual synchronized dialogue was the Warner Bros. movie “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson. “The Jazz Singer” was released on October 6, 1927, and it contained both silent scenes and sound sequences (consisting of both synchronized singing and synchronized dialogue).

Detailed explanation-5: -Though both the form and narrative of The Jazz Singer followed standard Hollywood tropes, the sound technology that brought Jolson’s voice to the screen was innovative. Called Vitaphone, it was Warner Bros. own sound-on-disc system, which was the leading brand at the time.