The Jazz Singer

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The Jazz Singer je američki igrani film iz 1927. godine, poznat prije svega kao prvi cjelovečernji film sa sinkroniziranim scenama dijaloga, a koji se često kolokvijalno (i pogrešno) navodi kao prvi zvučni film. Producirao ga je studio Warner Bros. koristeći novu Vitaphone tehniku snimanja zvuka na ploči, a režirao ga je Alan Crosland. Radnja se temeljila na kazališnom komadu Samsona Raphaelsona, a naslovnu ulogu - jevrejskog pjevača iz tradicionalne porodice koji, prkoseći strogom ocu, napušta kuću kako bi započeo uspješnu karijeru jazz pjevača - tumačio Al Jolson, kome je to bila najpoznatija uloga u karijeri. Film je doživio ogroman komercijalni uspjeh te potakao druge filmske studije u Hollywoodu i ostatku svijeta da u svoja ostvarenja ubacuju što više govora i muzike, označivši time početak kraja ere nijemog filma.

The Jazz Singer
Kino-poster
Režija	Alan Crosland
Scenario	Alfred A. Cohn
Temeljen na	istoimenoj predstavi Samsona Raphaelsona
Uloge	Al Jolson May McAvoy Warner Oland
Muzika	Louis Silvers
Direktor fotografije	Hal Mohr
Montaža	Harold McCord
Premijerno prikazivanje	6. 10. 1927 (1927-10-06)
Trajanje	89 min.
Jezik	engleski
Zemlja	Sjedinjene Države
Distributer	Warner Bros.
Budžet	422.000 $
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Glumačka postava

• Al Jolson kao Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin)
• May McAvoy kao Mary Dale
• Warner Oland kao Kantor Rabinowitz
• Yossele Rosenblatt glumi sam sebe
• Eugenie Besserer kao Sara Rabinowitz
• Otto Lederer kao Moisha Yudelson
• Bobby Gordon kao Jakie Rabinowitz (u dobi od 13 godina)
• Richard Tucker kao Harry Lee

Literatura

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Jessel, George (2006 [1943]). So Help Me: The Autobiography of George Jessel. Kessinger. ISBN 1-4286-5975-7 Koszarski, Richard (1994 [1990]). An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08535-3 Kroll, Jack (1997). "The Movies: They Are The Art Form Of Our Era, A Spectacle That Attracts The Whole World", Newsweek, December 2 (available online). Lhamon, W. T. (1998). Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-74711-9 Low, Rachael (1997 [1971]). The History of the British Film 1918–1929 (The History of British Film, Volume IV). Oxford and New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-15649-1 Lusk, Norbert (1927). "'Jazz Singer' Scores a Hit", Los Angeles Times, October 16. Rees, Nigel (1999). Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-36799-0 Schatz, Thomas (1998 [1989]). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19596-2 Stark, Seymour (2000). Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show. Xlibris. ISBN 0-7388-5735-1 Variety staff (1927). "The Jazz Singer," Variety (available online). Willis, Corin (2005). "Meaning and Value in The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)," in Style And Meaning: Studies In The Detailed Analysis Of Film, ed. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6524-0

Vanjske veze

• The Jazz Singer dostupan kao besplatni download na Internet Archive
• The Jazz Singer na sajtu IMDb
• The Jazz Singer promo Vitaphone short
• Al Jolson Society Official Website includes clip from The Jazz Singer of Jolson's first onscreen speech and performance of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (follow links: His Work–Films–The Jazz Singer–Toot, Toot, Tootsie)
• Let's Go To The Movies (1948) film clip, with excerpt of "My Mammy" at 2:30; at the Internet Archive
• Lux Radio Theater/The Jazz Singer radio version originally broadcast on August 10, 1936; at the Internet Archive