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  Jazz Singer [80th Anniversary] [Deluxe Edition] [3 Discs]

  • Release date: October 16, 2007
  • Format: Dvd
  • Language: Eng
  • Subtitles: Eng/Fre/Spa
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Run Time: 1 hr. 29 min.
  • Special Features: New digital transfer and immaculately refurbished soundtrack from restored picture elements and original Vitaphone-Sound-on-Disc recordings
    Commentary by Ron Hutchinson, founder of The Vitaphone Projects and Nighthawks bandleader Vince Giordano
    Vintage Al Jolson shorts, radio show adaptation and movie trailer gallery
    Classic homage cartoon "I Love to Singa"
    New feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How the Movies Learned to Talk
    Surviving sound excerpts from 1929's Gold Diggers of Broadway
    Studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era
    Over 3½ hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts starring the greats of vaudeville and the early sound era, many recently recoved and restored after being thought lost forever
    10 behind-the-scenes photo cards
    12-page Vitaphone program
    20-page souvenir program
    4-page theater herald
    16-page book with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide
    Post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson and Jack Warner
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  Jazz Singer [Blu-ray]

  • Release date: January 8, 2013
  • Format: BluRay
  • Language: Eng
  • Subtitles: Eng/Fre/Spa
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Run Time: 1 hr. 36 min.
  • Special Features: 88-page blu-ray book includes photos, the film's history and more!
    Plus:
    Reproductions of vintage documents
    Post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson
    History of talkies overview
    Remakes and parodies in modern culture
    Critical impact of this particular feature and its influence on the historical progress of cinema
    
    Disc 1: the movie:
    Now on blu-ray! Feature digital transfer and immaculately refurbished soundtrack from restored picture elements and original Vitaphone-sound-on-disc recordings
    Commentary by film historian Ron Hutchinson and bandleader Vince Giordano
    Rare cartoon and collection of shorts: I love to singa, Hollywood handicap, A day at Santa Anita, Al Jolson in A plantation act
    An intimate dinner in celebration of Warner Bros.' silver jubilee
    1947 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast starring Al Jolson (audio only)
    Theatrical trailer
    
    Disc 2: the early sound era:
    Feature-length documentary the dawn of sound: how movies learned to talk
    Surviving sound excerpts from 1929's Gold Diggers of Broadway
    Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era: the voice from the screen, Finding his voice, the voice that thrilled the world, Okay for sound, When talkies were young
    On DVD
    
    Disc 3: Vitaphone shorts:
    Over 3 1/2 hours' worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts including: Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville act: behind the lines, Bernardo de Pace: wizard of the mandolin, Van and Schenck: the pennant winning battery of songland and much more!
    On DVD