“The Jazz Singer” is an American musical film that stars Al Jolson. It is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson and produced by Warner Bros. The story is about a young boy, Jakie Rabinowitz, who goes against the traditions of his Jewish family by singing songs in a beer hall and tries to build a career for himself as an entertainer.
On this day, October 6th, in 1927, “The Jazz Singer” makes its debut in theaters. It is the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences. For this reason, it began the decline of the silent film era and launched the birth of the talking pictures. Warner Bros. used its first Vitaphone sound-on-disc system that allowed them to produce a number of synchronized singing sequences and synchronized speech. This newfound way of producing talking films revolutionized the movie-making industry.