The Singer of jazz

the Singer of Jazz is a American Musical film of Alan Crosland left in 1927.

He is commonly regarded as first talking film.

Synopsis

Furious the Rabinowitz cantor to have found his Jackie son singing in a bar, drove out it hearth familial.
A few years later, Jackie is singer of jazz in a night club and is made call Jack Robin. He is noticed by the actress Mary Dale, who proposes to help it to make carrière.
And indeed, Jackie is propuslé on the scene of Broadway to make a new spectacle there, a spectacle which undoubtedly renderait it new the star of the song. But the concert falls the day from the Yom Kippour, and the father of Jackie, very sick, is thus unable to sing. His mother and a neighbor try to convince Jackie to give up his show and to take part in the celebration. Incompetent to resist, it precipitates with the Synagog to sing there the Kol Nidre, the traditional prayer. His/her father dies in the joy. A few years later, Jackie is again on the boards and obtains an immense success, under the glance of his/her mother.

Comments

This cinematographic version of the part of Samson Raphaelson is the first talking film with a total about 281 words. It shows also the bond which will exist between Broadway and Hollywood during several decades, in the kind even of the musical comedy.

The Al Jolson voice was the first with being heard in a feature-length film; it caused a thunder of applaudissements.
At the beginning, Al Jolson was to sing only five songs and entonner some topics religious. For the producers, it was absolutely necessary to avoid the language spoken in the middle of the pieces. Therefore the history is still told there using paperboards and of subtitles.

However, at the time of the song Blue Ski , the actor launched out in a true improvisation not envisaged in the scenario: a dialog with his/her mother (Eugenie Besserer). This intervention on behalf of Al Jolson caused to thaw out the myth of sound film and made it possible the others to launch out in “speaking”.

In short, this Chanteur of Jazz opened simply a door on a new kind which was going to prove reliable during several decades.

The counterpart " , You wait a little do not have anything yet entendu" was classified 71ème among the the 100 counterparts most known of the American cinema.

Distribution

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See too

  • '' the Singer of jazz '' on the encyclopedia Inserted.

  • Synopsis and comment of film on the site of the film club of Caen.
  • Card IMDb
  • the film on dvdtoile.com.

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