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File: The Jazz Singer (1927) - Trailer.webm

Author: Alan Crosland

Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures

Year: 1927

PD: PD/US|1936

Note: The official trailer to The Jazz Singer

Cat: Film trailers

Ladies and gentlemen, I am privileged to say a few words to you in this most modern and novel manner—privileged because it's the first living Vitaphone announcement ever made, announcing the coming of one of the year's outstanding pictures. What is the picture? Well, of course, you've guessed that I am referring to Warner Bros.' supreme triumph, Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, with May McAvoy and Warner Oland, and a superb cast directed by Alan Crosland, and it was taken from the play written by Samson Raphaelson.

Now, this picture, with Vitaphone accompaniment, and Al Jolson singing many of his songs in his own inimitable manner, is a big hit in New York, to such an extent that Warner Bros. Theater in New York City where The Jazz Singer is now playing, is sold out for many weeks in advance.

Now, I'm going to show you how they were trying to get in to see the opening performance of The Jazz Singer in New York City.

Ah, here we have Jesse Lasky and Morris ???, and his wife. And Joe Schenck, with the bow there. And Louis Silvers—he's the chap who wrote the score for The Jazz Singer. And there's Herbert Brenon, the great—yeah, the chap with the cape.