Al Jolson sings in the 1st-ever Talkie "The Jazz Singer" .mpg
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It was Warner Bros that took the 1st leap into the all-talking movie with the Jazz Singer in 1927. Though there are instances of sound being used earlier this film is the 1st feature-length motion-pic with synchronized dialogues. Directed by Alan Crosland, it starred Al Jolson performing the 6 songs in the Movie. And as the saying goes the rest is history.
93 years later we can watch this with a small device held in the palm of our hands that can be operated by simply touching a glass screen. I wonder what they'd think if they could see us watching it like this.
Given the massive DECREASE in screen size... that we are complete idiots, most probably.
Lol i think the sane thing... the internet would blowwww there minds
Human technological advances on our timeline are ridiculous. Everything fairly much the same for thousands of years, then hundreds. Now, not even 100 years after this, we have handheld devices that can film stuff, watch films, listen to music, learn things, comunicate with people on the other side of the world as if they were right here.
To be honest, even radio is incredible: invisible waves through the air through which sound can be transmitted, unscrambled and received. Then there's a light switch... a room floods with light... you push a button and your shit is flushed to the sea, along with millions of others' shit.
You're wasting your time trying to get the rank and file non-thinkers on here to appreciate the super sharp technology rise.
They're too dead to watch it.
Sometimes I wonder the same thing.
I want to see this because Al Jolson was my Dad's favorite performer💙
I like to imagine what it was like for people when The Jazz Singer came out. It's 1927. Movies have been silent for as long as they have existed. Then they see this. Synchronized vocal speech coming from a film. They probably shat themselves out of awe. Also, here's a fun fact. They cut it out of this video, but when Jack says, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't seen nothing yet." after the song, that line was improvised. Making it the first improvised dialogue in film history.
There's actually only about 2 minutes of synchronized speech in the entire film, nearly all improvised.
did you know that every single line in every single movie was improvised?
1:29 the whole world of entertainment was changed forever
Was I suppose the first talkie made by HOLLYWOOD, but I don't think it's the first ever made.
@@joemancini327 It's not the first movie with sound but it was the first commercially successful and first full feature-length talkie. It proved that talkies can be commercially successful and that there's a demand in the market for it. After it was released, everyone started copying it which lead to the spread of talkies.
@@Nothing_serious I don't think it's the first commercially successful either. Mainly because designs like the audio tube which was ground breaking sound technology for the 1920s. The audio tube was so popular it had almost 1000 short films made using the technology. (The audio tube was a method of adding sicranised sounds to film.) However Hollywood failed to take notice of the revolutionary sound technology. (For some reason.) The audio tube in my opinion did make commercially successful short films back before the 1927 Jazz Singer. The Jazz Singer wasn't even the first film made by Warner Bros with sound. Dawn Waun (I think that's the name) was produced right before the Jazz Singer in 1927 I believe and it still had sicranised sounds just no actors talking. The first all sound film made by Hollywood is actually called The Lights of New York which think deserves a better honor than most films get.
@@joemancini327 Just to clarify, The Jazz Singer is considered "the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences." And yes, while The Light of New York was the first movie with entire sound, it was The Jazz Singer that popularized talkies and started the trend.
@@Nothing_serious It didn't necessesairly start a trend. Hollywood just had reliable technology that would allow them to create sound film. That's no trend, that's just reliable technology at the time. I say this because the desire to have sound and film goes back to almost the beginning of film. All of the major film companies wanted sound they just didn't have the proper expensive equipment to do at the time.
Yes, supposidly you can say it was the first feature film made by Hollywood where people actually spoke in the film. It's NOT the first synchronised sound feature film made by Hollywood. That award goes to Duan Juan from 1926 (my mistake on the spelling) which had synchronised sound effects.
History. My Grandparents were young marrieds when they saw this with friends of their’s. Very exciting for them!
Man, to see this in 1927 must have blown some folk's minds.
Dude, everyone left what they were doing when they heard him sing. Lol.
That instrumental music playing before he sings is really great.
0:32
Including the sounds of the plates clinking.
The tune is called "Hop Skip". Many bands in the 20s did recordings of it, if you want to hear a full version
AL JOLSON THE JAZ SINGER THE YEAR I WAS BORN 1927. THE FIRST TALKY MOVIE..HE WAS POPULAR DURING THE 40'S TILL HIS RECORDS WORE OUT. LIKE A LOT OF THOSE THAT WERE THAT ARE NOW GONE ONLY IN HISTORY ARE THOSE
WHO WERE, AND THEY REALLY WERE. THERE ARE A LOT OF NAMES THAT CAN BE MENTIONEED. AND THEY WERE GREAT THEIR COTRINUTION TO SOCIATY CAN NEVER BE MEASURED, OTHER THAN THE NUMBER OF EMPTY SPACES THAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. ..
+Harold Smith Great remembrance of how people played music "until the records wore out". After that it was not easy to find the song again unless it was extremely popular or maybe you heard it on the radio.
Bravo! Thank you...
Is it crazy for you to think about how much the world has changed in your lifetime? When you were born the first ever talkie movie came out, today we have UA-cam, TV, everything like that.
That means you turned 90 this year
Harold Smith you were born in 1927 your so old oh my god now that's old
This film has now entered the public domain as of January 1, 2023!
Imagine if a time traveler visited this set and talked to one of the actors or audience about this movie changing history.
Lovely song and performance, Al's suit is still in fashion 89 years later :)
2tonefootage it will always be
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people must've been blown away looking at that ham
His father would have fainted!!
What ham? All I saw were two poorly fried eggs and a blob of dark stuff like burnt black pudding. Looked disgusting.
I put mind as a women who lives in the 20’s and loves cinema, goes to watch movies every time but they are silent but then I am in the cinema watching this movies and he starts singing... I literally fucking jumped.
For some reason I was shocked when he started talking even thought Im used to movies with sound. I guess I just imagine how it must have been
The most significant scenes in movie history!
When Jolson sang that, actors and actresses from other sets ran over to watch, abandoning what they were doing. They say the cost was huge.
Cost of what, exactly?
"you ain't heard nothing yet." words that changed film history. too bad it's cut right before he'd say it.
Coffee Dan's was apparently a "ham and eggery" during the '20's. I love the little hammers they used for applause or to call for service. I also read somewhere that they had a slide entrance, that it was a speakeasy, and that they were located in San Francisco. I also recall a Coffee Dan's in downtown L.A. on Broadway during the '50's, but it was only a simple coffee shop as far as I could tell.The song which plays during the opening title and when the customers are dancing is entitled, "Hop, Skip", and it's also from 1927. That sax player behind Jolson looks as though he stepped out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel with his round horn rims and Brilliantined hair...perhaps as a musician at one of Jay Gatsby's parties.
I️ remember when this movie first came out. Sure does take me back.
You must be really... REALLY OLD.
History in the making.
Total genius. The performer's performer.
Al Johnson’s voice is so calming and relaxing, it’s like one of those machines that put me to sleep
The fellow sitting with Jolson is none other than William Demarest, character actor of fillm (mostly comedies) and classic television; best remembered today as "Uncle Charley" in My Three Sons.
In addition, Demarest co-starred in the Jolson biopics (THE JOLSON STORY and JOLSON SINGS AGAIN) as Al Jolson's fictitious / composite character mentor, "Steve Martin." Methinks there may have been a real world friendship between Demarest and Jolson.
damn this movie is 90 now
You and this movie have something in common then.
Every one in this film is mostly likely dead :(
Yep :(
And your point is, Wang Fire?
91*
I was born in 1986 and ohhh how the times have changed so much in my day... 😂😂😂
This movie made history.
The first world wide SuperStar
i think that this has better sound quality and sync than some 2020 computers and videos;)
It's about to be the 20s again
Fantastic, all of them, thank you UA-cam to share. thank you.
Thanks, Curiosity Stream!!!!!
This scene always makes me hungry for ham and eggs.
RIGHT?!??!
No wonder his papa was mad at him.
The Vitaphone process was clumsy, but the sound was much clearer than early sound-on-film motion pictures. The audio quality of this segment is more like from films in the forties.
Bringing back memories with happy tears.
those eggs must be so old now if they have them still
Taken as the first film with sound syncronized to the image, but in fact the first was "The photo-drama of creation" form 1914. Its system was much better than Vitaphone.
The problem was that motion picture photography which had really advanced was set back to the beginning by cameras that were now stationary and sealed in a soundproof box..
In response to several postings with regard to the limits of the sound sequences, here are a few more details. Remember, it was 1927 (almost 91 years ago). At first they did not have sound-proof cameras. The cameraman was in a small sound-insulated booth filming through a window, without ventilation (which also would have made noise the mic would pick up). Takes had to be short 'cause the camera guy was melting and with no fresh air source. The sound sequences not only had to be short, but also there was no camera movement other than long-shot or close-up. Compare the silent sequences in THE JAzz SINGER to the sound sequences. The mic also was in a fixed position, which is why Jolson is so frenetic: he wants to move around but he can't go out of mic range! By about 1930 Hollywood had solved most of these problems.
As a certain female film director improvise by attach a microphone to a fishing pole. Because of a skittish actress refuse to be still as she prefer to speak while acting instead of speaking to a hidden microphone behind a pot. Yet that leads to a birth of a boom mic.
this scene made me hungry while the last scene in the film made me cry...
This footage looks remarkably clear (like 40s to 60s), compared with its intro video and other later films like in 1929, which are not as sharp and slightly noisy background!
Then came "Toot tòot tootsie " and the world was never quite the same again.
May not seem like it in today's standard but I take many are excited for the time do it's a first picture that uses sound in a film. (Well only when they are stationary near by a hidden microphone or use a telephone.
So the first "talkie" was still largely a silent picture
FIRST movie with sound
Guillion Thode wrong
I believe the earliest movies with sound were ignored until Jolson's very presence in this movie made the sound MORE noticed and caused a "sensation".
1:28 first talked of movie history
At the top of his game. There is a 10 minute soundie from 1926 of Jolson's which is also a treat.
90 years, they don't make movies like they used to movies were good from 1920 to 1970
History is made!!!!!
WONDERFULL!!
Interesting fact: Al Jolson had a fettish for robins
The late twenties and early thirties talkies sounded much better than the 50s and 60s because they used a type of noiseless recording but the reason it took so long for sound to come out was because it was very difficult cameras were run by the hand then that's why I sometimes he would see him speed up and then slow down
The common miss conception about this film, fact is that it is NOT the first talkie, it was the first commercially successful talkie but the sound on films systems that predate the Vitaphone sound on disc system would be adopted as standard by 1931 making Vitaphone sound obsolete.
Edison had created synchronised talkies before the end of the 1900s and various inventors would go on to explore sync sound for film even including a sound grove on the film edge that could be read like a gramaphone record. However it would be Fox's variable density optical sound and RCA's variable area sound, both of which were photographically recorded onto the film, that would become industry standard and remain in use all the way to the present day.
THIS IS A GAME CHANGER!
I believe that the sound portions were filmed at what is now the Kaufman Astoria Studios in NYC.
Cats01 Really?! I live right by there, and always go there to see movies
This is the first movie with people's voice
So, supposedly this inspired Walt Disney to make Steamboat Willie?
+give this weeb some oxiJIN actually a cartoon called "My Old Kentucky Home" inspired "Don Juan" 1926 wich was the first film with synchronized sound wich would inspire "The Jazz Singer" that after Walt Disney saw the jazz singer he made SteamBoat Willie
@@wannabeasubscriber528 well in turn “Oh Mabel” inspired “Don Juan” (despite not being the first talkie)
This was the first ever music video...
Hi Mike, I totally agree with you, I've given a description about previous instances in my synopsis on this particular Video.
That looks like William Demarest eating at the table with Al Jolson.
Yes- and in "The Jolson Story" (1946), he appeared opposite Larry Parks AS "Jolson".
It's not the very first talking film. In the early 1900s, film makers experimented on talking films. In 1900 at the Paris world's fair, a film called "Cyrano de Bergernac".
"Full Feature Film" not just a film, those shows were about as long as a tv ad today,.
The Jazz Singer is the first commercially successful talkie
songs and one scene with voice. good film.
I also saw a 1913 short film on UA-cam called "Jack's Joke".
@@Satans_Legion_of_Evil It's impressive to see a sound film before talkies went mainstream.
awwwwww.....
Here because I just watched America In Color.
reo52 - You're right: that IS William Demarest, later (much later) as Uncle Charlie in "My Three Sons"
So that's what purely natural farm fresh eggs look like.
If you've never had farm fresh eggs you need to try them!!
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress brought me here.
"Back in my day we call it the Talkie" -some old man I heard somewhere, maybe a TV show
Talkin was probably bigger than even color TV coming out which the first color film was older than the first talkee it was an American flag waving in the breeze and I believe it was 1922
MY LEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tf lmfaoo
(once it gets to the part of him singing)
WOAH THE MOVIE IS TALKING!!!
WITCHCRAAAAFT!!!
就喜欢这种感jio
I know it is politically incorrect but Al Jolson was a Jewish man whose family immigrated from Lithuania and he was the son of a cantor. Every year at Passover for thousands of years, Jews recount their 300 years as slaves of the Egyptians. I think Jews and Blacks have a lot in common. I think his using black face even though it was a convention of the time, also grew out of this common background as identifying with the soul in black music.
Most film historians say that this movie and Jewish participation in blackface actually was meant to show Jewish people as white. At the time, they were considered foreigners and NOT white. By doing blackface they were associating themselves with white people in their separation from black people.
White jewish people ARE white. What have you been smoking?
ooh!😁
I have to write an essay about how the first movie with sound ( this movie ) effected the people and the world... In good and bad ways.
If anyone has any interesting or funny stories about their parents or grandparents who lived around this time, I would be very happy if you could help me and share your story
I believe this was the first feature-length film with synchronized dialog. I'm assuming they were limited on which tracks they could put in. This seems partially talkie and partially silent film. I'm interested on how this worked back then.
Jefff with a vitaphone, the reason the whole movie isn't a talkie is that it was incredibly difficult to synchronize the vitaphone with the picture
Also, at first they did not have sound-proof cameras. The cameraman was in a small sound-insulated booth filming through a window, without ventilation (which also would have made noise the mic would pick up). Takes had to be short 'cause the camera guy was melting and with no fresh air source. You'll notice there is NO camera movement in early sound films. Compare the silent sequences in THE JAzz SINGER to the sound sequences. The mic also was in a fixed position, which is why Jolson is so frenetic: he wants to move around but he can't go out of mic range!
APUSH class really got me watching this shit
How did they adjust the vocals with the "a little bit fast" video?
The Vitaphone platter was locked in sync with the projector. One of the main headaches was when the film got damaged and was missing frames.
Everyone in this movie is dead.
You got me fucked if you think I'm gonna pay 3 bucks for a movie that was made in 1920
0:14 is that steak and eggs?
Or ham and eggs?
Either way, looks yummy!
+Daniel Medina Whatever it was, I bet it wasn't kosher! ;)
waivedwench That's for sure! Haha :)
Daniel Medina Gib food
Who’s here cause of Babylon? :)
Nicole Kidman was born way too late for the silents. Such is life.
Was the music on the beginning supposed to sub for the orchestra? I always thought it was a silent until Al started singing
I don't know, but the music sounds very great.
Im sure robin williams must have studied or been a fan of jolson. Their mannerisms and way of speaking were similar somehow
so what was the first feature length film with speech all the way through without title cards?
guess i found out from wikipedia - Lights of New York
A film called "The Lights of New York" released the year after "The Jazz Singer." They say it was a dreadful film, but it made a whole lot of money because it WAS the first all-talking film. It was THAT film that convinced the studios to fully convert to sound films.
I think they are eating an early version of pizza
I like the way they fried the eggs in the old days.
meat with the eggs also and the meats either bloody as hell or burnt to a crisp
Why can't you have a fried egg now?
To Neil Diamond
Jazz Singer is Not the 1st talkie
Sounds like hes trying to stand up for someone
You have to make the lips funny
Jews can be of any race or colour. It is a religion not a race.Another U.S.A. Jewish singer who changed all music was Elvis Aaron Presley.
So thats how people used to eat...i see
What do you mean? People still eat eggs?
Check your facts...this was not the first "talkie".
wasnt it?
It was
Creepy
It’s kinda of cringey