Ripon Public Library

The jazz singer, a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and The Vitaphone Corporation ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn ; directed by Alan Crosland

Title from containerA photo-dramatic production of Samson Raphaelson's playOriginally released as a motion picture in 1927Special features: Disc 1: New digital transfer and refurbished soundtrack; commentary by Ron Hutchinson, founder of The Vitaphone Projects and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; vintage Al Jolson short films, radio show adapation and movie trailer gallery; classic homage cartoon "I love to singa" ; Disc 2: "The dawn of sound: how the movies learned to talk" new feature-length documentary; surviving sound excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway;" studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era ; Disc 3: Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts starring the greats of Vaudeville and the early sound era, many recently recovered and restored after being lost

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Photography, Hal Mohr ; editor, Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone orchestra director, Louis Silvers

other

Three-disc deluxe ed. ; 80th anniversary.Full screen.

9781419856228

videodisc

Al Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner Oland

3 videodiscs (89 min.), sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 book ([16] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)156980173a812497

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer

012569798892

79889 -- Warner Home Video

DVD