# Canonical recap data for The Jazz Singer Premieres (1927)
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title: The Jazz Singer Premieres
subtitle: The first full-length feature film with synchronized dialogue and music revolutionized cinema overnight, making silent films obsolete and inaugurating the age of talking pictures.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1927-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1927
decade: 1920
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and
summaryLong: The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson. Based on the 1925 play of the same title by Samson Raphaelson, the plot was adapted from his short story "The Day of Atonement".
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "The Jazz Singer"
importance: 80
sourceConfidence: 75
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  title: The Jazz Singer
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- tech-launch
metaDescription: The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-lengt
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