The Jazz Singer

Tradition and the Jazz Singer

This 1927 production is that so-called transitional silent movie that transcends the silent movie era into talkies.

Here, for the first time Al Johnson sang 6 songs in a "silent" movie.

Today, The Jazz Singer is considered one of the best movies to have come out from the American film studios.

Roughly based on a fictional story of a Jewish family called Rabbanowich who upholds tenaciously the songs of the Sabbath Jack, played by Al Jolson,was caught in two difficult places-to pursue his dream to be a famous Broadway jazz singer or to stick to the tradition of the Jews to sing only in the synagogues.

Good editing for a movie from yesteryear!