The Jazz Singer (Three-Disc Deluxe Edition) (1927) on DVD

Actor:            Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Bobby Gordon
Director:      George Cukor
Genre:           Drama
Year:            1927
Studio:         Warner Brothers
Length:        265
Released:   October 16, 2007
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            NTSC,  Black & White
Language:  English
Subtitles  :  French, Spanish

DESCRIPTION:

Al Jolson, Warner Oland. This landmark first talkie film" tells the tale of the son of a Jewish cantor who goes against his father's orthodox wishes to become a jazz singer.

Special Features:

• Disc 1: The Movie
• All-new feature digital transfer and immaculately refurbished soundtrack from restored picture elements and original Vitaphone-Sound-on-Disc recordings
• Commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano
• Collection of rare cartoons and shorts: I Love to Sing (a classic 1936 WB parody cartoon directed by Tex Avery), Hollywood Handicap (classic M-G-M short with Al Jolson appearance), A Day at Santa Anita (classic Technicolor Warner Bros. short with Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler cameo appearance), Al Jolson in 'A Plantation Act' (1926 Vitaphone short made a year prior to The Jazz Singer), An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
• 1947 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast starring Al Jolson (audio only)
• Al Jolson Trailer Gallery
• Disc 2: The Early Sound Era
• All-new feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
• Two rarely-seen Technicolor excerpts from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929 WB film, most of which is considered lost)
• Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era: Finding His Voice (1929 Western Electric animated promotional short, produced by Max Fleischer), The Voice That Thrilled The World (Warner Bros. short about sound), Okay for Sound (1946 WB short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Vitaphone), When Talkies Were Young (1955 WB short looking back at the early talkies), The Voice from the Screen (1926 WB 'demonstration' film explores the Vitaphone technology and, looks at the making of a Vitaphone short)
• Disc 3: Vitaphone Shorts
• Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts: Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act: "Behind the Lines", Bernado Depace: "Wizard of the Mandolin", Van and Schneck: "The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland", Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, Hazel Green and Company,  The Night Court,  The Police Quartette, Ray Mayer & Edith Evans: "When East Meets West", Adele Rowland: "Stories in Song", Stoll, Flynn and Company: "The Jazzmania Quintet", The Ingenues in "The Band Beautiful", The Foy Family in "Chips off the Old Block",Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs, Gus Arnheim and His Ambassador,[Shaw and Lee: "The Beau Brummels",Larry Ceballos' Roof Garden Revue, Trixie Friganza in "My Bag O' Tricks", Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts,Sol Violinsky: "The Eccentric Entertainer", Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr in "At the Seashore", Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats, Baby Rose Marie: "The Child Wonder", Burns & Allen in "Lambchops", Joe Frisco in "The Happy Hottentots"
• Collector's Edition bonuses:
• Rarely seen behind-the-scenes photo cards
• Original release lobby card reproductions
• Original release souvenir program book reproduction
• Booklet with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide
• Reproduction of post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson to Jack L. Warner