Title: The Jazz Singer (play)
Content: Jolson in the role instead. Released on October 6, 1927, and also titled "The Jazz Singer", the adaptation was 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. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Made for $422,000, the movie grossed $3.9 million at the domestic box office. Its release also had the effect of ending the touring production of the play, which could not compete with the lower-priced movie. Three subsequent screen versions of "The

Title: The Jazz Singer
Content: 27, "The Jazz Singer" became the first feature-length talking picture to be shown in Europe when it premiered at London's Piccadilly Theatre. The movie "created a sensation", according to British film historian Rachael Low. ""The Jazz Singer" was a turning point [for the introduction of sound]. "The Bioscope" greeted it with, 'We are inclined to wonder why we ever called them Living Pictures.'" The Paris sound premiere followed in January 1929. Before the 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in May 1929, honoring films released between August 1927 and July 1928, "The Jazz Singer" was ruled ineligible for the two

Title: Vitaphone
Content: in "A Plantation Act", a musical short released on October 7, 1926. On October 6, 1927, "The Jazz Singer" premiered at the Warner Theater in New York City, broke box-office records, established Warner Bros. as a major player in Hollywood, and is traditionally credited with single-handedly launching the talkie revolution. At first, the production of Vitaphone shorts and the recording of orchestral scores was strictly a New York phenomenon, taking advantage of the bountiful supply of stage and concert hall talent there, but the Warners soon migrated some of this activity to their more spacious facilities on the West Coast.

Title: The Jazz Singer
Content: The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. 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, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the film, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson, is based on the play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, adapted from one of his short stories titled "The Day of Atonement". The film depicts

Title: The Jazz Singer
Content: is understood that the success of "The Jazz Singer" signaled the end of the silent motion picture era, this was not immediately apparent. Mordaunt Hall, for example, praised Warner Bros. for "astutely realiz[ing] that a film conception of "The Jazz Singer" was one of the few subjects that would lend itself to the use of the Vitaphone." In historian Richard Koszarski's words, "Silent films did not disappear overnight, nor did talking films immediately flood the theaters... Nevertheless, 1927 remains the year that Warner Bros. moved to close the book on the history of silent pictures, even if their original goal

Question: In which year was the talkie The Jazz Singer released?
Answer: 1927