The Jazz Singer

[terrfomp92]

I really enjoyed watching this move in my film class. It's a classic.

[JSC3]

True HD 1080p

[MrTomVprosser]

It doesn't suprise me that Scorsese used part of this in Goodfellas.

[ElfBosque]

1080p <3

[kayzeaza]

I always thought the Flappers in the 1920's looked a lot better then the women of today

[happycreeeper]

This is why people didnt make movies with sound back then

[vegettoSSJ3ROCKSS]

the first motion picture with sound :D

[yabalove]

The first official movie that included sound (1927).

It is phenomenal the way it engage the audience through out the entire film.

[PointBaron]

Soo good!! HAHahaha

[Taew2009]

Now that guy can cut a rug, HaHa! But if someone danced like that today, he'd get his ass kicked!

[TheCaptain008]

The silent movie era lasted for thirty years until 1927 when this movie came out. :] It was such a joy to see a little clip and get an idea, THANK YOU for uploading.

[Polospecialist]

I was looking all over for this!!! This is playing in the background in Goodfellas!

[nerdflanders8710]

@JhonnyDaemon go fist yourself you queer.

[nerdflanders8710]

@JhonnyDaemon get fuck'ed you w'nker.

[nerdflanders8710]

@JhonnyDaemon youre an idiot.

[pumasduck]

how i wish i was the one to experience all of these things for the first time!

[marknyc9]

This is absolutely not the first sound film. Sound films had been around for about a decade. It's the first successful sound feature film.

[jesse6683]

jolson was so good he had lots of energy

[Alchemist1330]

I love old films but, this performance is horrbile when looked at now his dancing, singing,and whisteling is almost non-human. I'm glad though this happend.

[0YTMan]

0:37 - 1:12 - I want to learn to do that!

[jomatt711]

Goodfellas.

[rcnrcn927]

This in 1911 mode(April Fools) is awesome

[MerelyAFan]

After seeing a movie where Eva Braun was singing this while in blackface, the song's never been quite the same for me.

[shaunsstuff79]

this is some weird shit man !!!

[298625]

Now you know where Elvis got his moves. He was huge Jolson fan.

[ViewerMovies3001]

This was the movie that caused Howard Hughes to re-shoot Hell's Angels with sound, and recast the lead female role with Jean Harlow, who was then an unknown.

[tickchicktock]

@Cman600 - Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but from what I know they had to put make up on their faces to make it easier to see their expressions in the movies. Due to technological limitations that made the quality of the movie's image poorer than what we have today.

Of course, I could be wrong about that-but that's what I've heard/learned.

[HarborGuy]

@tickchicktock so true. But Black Face was done by many at the time............

[MwebK]

i love that people can still see what the first "talkie" was like. The twenties are one of my favorite parts of history.... Rudolph Valentino (swoon).

[nickoDavinci]

Better than Twilight.

[iSimon2k8]

@nickoDavinci Oh Snap!

[ecluett1]

@sweetieJB520: This was a clip I found on YouTube of "The Jazz Singer" that I uploaded on my account. It was for a lesson I did while teaching a class about the culture of the 1920s. This was the first film with sound, so it's fairly significant. I didn't record it, and at any rate, putting it in HD was not my first priority.

[Jfresh310]

dont make fun of Ed. evil little kids

[DeWoodyard]

Imagine... actually having to deliver the performance goods. No agents, no big dumb faces with 7-figure deals. Just good, honest, multi-talented performers...

[TV108]

So very great and alive !

[szewei85]

long live the 1st step of REVOLUTION haha xD

[FcBow]

Does anybody know who the actress is that they show briefly?

[ozzieborne]

@FcBow May McAvoy i do believe

[FcBow]

@ozzieborne Thank you very much!

[bobstronge]

Que bizarres!

[szewei85]

aaahhh what a freaking classic...this the greatest golden age of hollywood ever unlike now is full of crap

[alexp9999]

this is frikken INSANE o.0

and they say modern entertainment is damaging?!

really, what's with the hand whistling O.O

[Cmann600]

old films always make the people look like undead zombies

[inturn23]

Two wonderful years before the stock market crash. What a surprise that awaited.

[TheTard15]

He's better than that hand whistler on America's Got Talent! :P

[762lenny]

those old films are just creepy

[Brrdan]

@762lenny

how?

[762lenny]

@Brrdan he looks like Nosfuratu the vampire.

[Brrdan]

@762lenny i mean, i guess, but why would you even make that comparison?

[noodle860]

@762lenny  hahahahahahahaa lol

[purpleshamrock17]

@762lenny maybe to us now, but back then, espeically with this film, they were amazing and totally revolutionary.

[MJMEMH]

technically, wings won for the period of 1928-1929. it won the award at a ceremony in 1929. it's confusing but it was like that until 1934, when it happened one night won for 1934, though technically everything after wings was just for one year.

[flaksucks]

my grandma told me the first time she saw this scene in theater, she and everyone else started looking around to see where the singer was because obviously he had to be in the room for them to be hearing that.

[TheRmcStudios]

@flaksucks Your grandma must be very old if she saw this movie in the theater. It was released 83 years ago and I don't think your grandma was younger than 10 years old when she saw it. So I'm guessing your grandma is about 94 - 95 years old? Am I correct?

Great movie by the way ;)

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

@TheRmcStudios There are people of ALL ages on YT ! ...in their 60s, etc. How old are you? You NEVER know how old someone is !!! This film was released in 1927, so it IS possible that some on YT could have Grandparent(s) that did indeed see this film in the theater.

[flaksucks]

@TheRmcStudios she's long deceased, actually. Passed about 8 years ago. She'd always tell me stories about her youth though. I'm just glad I was able to listen to some of it.

[RememberRox]

@flaksucks Haha that is amazing! thank you for telling this, i can imagine the confusion!

[nerdflanders8710]

@flaksucks can you imagine hoe people must have freaked out when they went for a ride in a car for the first time?

[JuanPaBJxGothic]

@flaksucks ohh, very nice! wow, my great-grandpa at that time was 14 years old; now that he's 98, he told me something similar about it.

[LyleBennet]

@flaksucks My Grandma saw several years later "On the Town" and "Gone With the Wind" which I think it's rather cool.

[JLogic72]

This clip was featured in the film Goodfellas.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

I just saw this movie 30-40 minutes ago. In my opinion this is the best movie Al Jolson ever made, this movie should have the Academy Award for best picture, it should have at least be nominated for the award.

[vidayverdad2]

There were no Academy Awards in 1927.

[thesparklingdiamond]

Though in the first ceremony, two years later, Wings won, and that came out in 1927.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

You Aint Heard Nothin' Yet

[vi0l3l30]

I saw this film to days ago and i Love it!!! Al is amazing!!