Talk:The Jazz Singer

message: Anyone know? -Jcbarr 13:28, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, but you must see this film. I screened it the first time in my home with a friend. After about 40 minutes of silence, when the first sound dialogue occurred, my friend and I were stunned. I believe that we experienced close to what the original audience did in 1929, the incredible experience of a film that talked. 66.108.144.49 03:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ever going to be a DVD of this movie?

message: The article already makes clear that The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length movie with talking sequences, but not the first sound feature.
For the curious, earlier feature-length movies with sound include:
* Dream Street (1921). Two sound sequences, recorded on discs: one song sequence, and another sequence with crowd noises. Sound version shown only in New York City.
* Siegfried (1924). Shown with a music score recorded with DeForest Phonofilm, only at the Century Theater in New York City in 1925.
* Don Juan (1926). Music score and sound effects, on Vitaphone discs. Sound version distributed nationally.
* The Better 'Ole (1926). Music score and sound effects, on Vitaphone discs. Sound version distributed nationally.
— Walloon 03:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is this not in the article? I think it is relevant. I won't move it myself, because I hate doing something that is just reverted. Can a more senior editor confirm, add citations, and add to the article, please? David Spector (user/talk) 11:20, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

text: Have you read the article? Dream Street, Don Juan, and The Better 'Ole are all mentioned in it, as has long been the case.—DCGeist (talk) 15:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Earlier sound features

message: According to a documentary I saw, the film lost several scenes in its Spanish showing, because it was censored as pro-Jewish propaganda.
Also, there seemed to be a silent version (the same?) that was playe along (by Enrique Jardiel Poncela?) with records of Jewish and jazz music.
--Error 22:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: In Spain

message: The third season Simpsons episode “Like Father, Like Clown” is an obvious homage to this film.  We have included this reference in the episode, but I thought a similar link should be posted on this site. (207.81.164.238 18:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous Pop Culture

message: I put back the full stops because after complete sentences the period has to persist, no matter whether there is only one sentence or more. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Captions. Sentence fragments like e. g. the description of theatrical posters in the infobox don't need periods. I already had the same discussion at Talk:Friday the 13th (film)#Caption. Dutzi (talk) 18:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Captions

message: Can please stuck a fork in this sh*t and be done with it? This cartoon character was inspired by Al Jolson's blackface character in The Jazz Singer. Case closed. Now....MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 08:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Michigan J. Frog

message: The 10:34, 24 December 2008 DCGeist version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 21:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

message: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/primera/pelicula/sonora/era/espanola/elpepucul/20101103elpepucul_15/Tes
It's a film found in the Library of Congress featuring Concha Piquer in 1923. The film is directed by Lee DeForest. 
In 1922, she debuted in New York City at the age of 14, and later appeared with Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, and Fred and Adele Astaire. On 15 April 1923, she appeared in a short film, "From Far Seville", made by Lee de Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and shown at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. This film is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress.
As it says in wikipedia article about Concha Piquer.
 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.17.135.66 (talk) 23:10, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Found an older film with sound by Lee DeForest featuring the Spanish singer Concha Piquer in 1923

message: I think the caption of the poster in the section entitled, "Commercial impact and industrial influence" is incorrect. It states that "...the image of Jack, in a suggestive nightrobe, carrying Mary does not actually appear in the film." I believe the image IS in the film; it is the scene where Jack catches Mary as she dances backwards off stage right. He's not carrying her at all, and he's not in a suggestive nightrobe; he's in a bathrobe before (or after) he goes on stage. The scene occurs about 27 minutes into the film.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jblykins (talk • contribs) 04:39, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Caption of The Jazz Singer poster 

message: This article is incomplete and requires cleanup of its information. The plot section is too long an contains an unnecessary amount of dialogue quotations which need to be consolidated and/or removed whenever necessary with some rewrites done to it in order to shorten it so that it meets wikipiedia's standards. The Production section is incomplete and also requires cleanup. This section contains pieces of information that aren't fully explained and varies in tone and style that would be considered not encyclopedic in tone and should be rewritten and reformatted so that it meet Wikipiedia's standards of writing style and tone. The Production section should be split into three subsections detailing information on the film's development, casting, and filming (Information on the film's casting and filming will need to be expanded since information currently in the article on these topics are very short and somewhat fragmented). The Realease and reception section should be split into two different sections, one detailing the films releases (with subsections detailing its theatrical and home media releases). The reception section should also include subsections that detail both the film's initial response and later response as well as awards/nominations. All of the above listed changes and additions should include properly formatted citations for all information given. This article can very easily become a Featured Article if enough attention is given to it.--Paleface Jack (talk) 00:28, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup and Expansion 

message: One disappointing aspect of the DVD release of The Jazz Singer is that its commentary track provides hardly any information about the score we are hearing, and which is the totality of most of the film's soundtrack. For example, there is what might be tagged as the "ghetto theme"—is it a traditional European Jewish melody? If so, does it, or its title, serve as an illuminating comment on the scenes it accompanies? Are the various ditties that accompany scenes of chorus rehearsals, etc., contributions by Irving Berlin, or originals by the score's composer, or ...? I recognize the tune that opens the Coffee Dan's sequence as "Hop, Skip", a circa 1926 song appropriate there because of its San Francisco origin (SF is where the sequence is set, despite misidentification as LA in the commentary: that's the SF Ferry Building in the subtitle card illustration, and "SF" in the "Coffee Dan's" logo, not "LA"), just the sort of musical comment that was often used in early film scores and is probably salted throughout this one. I was prompted to post this by just now coming across the claim in the article for the song "Beau Soir" that it was "used as a backdrop near the very end" of this film. In short, a musicological section, the more detailed the better, would, IMO, be a valuable contribution to this article. 66.81.245.3 (talk) 08:18, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musicology needed 

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message: Should we call The 1927 Jazz Singer a romantic musical drama or is that OK as is? --TMProofreader (talk) 18:37, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sources overwhelmingly consider it a musical drama. That is the primary genre. Betty Logan (talk) 21:08, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do you think? 

message: Does anyone know how he does the whistling thing? As seen here: . Is he actually doing it all live or is it synced? I'm guessing the latter given the cuts? 104.232.119.107 (talk) 11:35, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whistling