Reputedly the first sound film (but we know better, don’t we?).

This three-disc set includes the best-available edition of the film on DVD presented in an all-new digital transfer from restored film elements with a digitally-remastered soundtrack from original Vitaphone sound discs.

The set’s supplementary materials include: audio commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano, Al Jolson film trailers, two rarely-seen Technicolor excerpts from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) most of which is presumed lost, more than 3-1/2 hours of rare Vitaphone comedy and music shorts including The Voice from the Screen (1926) introducing Vitaphone sound film technology, Al Jolson in 'A Plantation Act' (1926), Bernado DePace “Wizard of the Mandolin” (1927), The Night Court (1927), The Police Quartette (1927), Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs (1928), My Bag o’ Trix (1928) starring Trixie Friganza, Ray Mayer and Edith Evans “When East Meets West” (1928), The Seven Little Foys in “Chips Off the Old Block” (1928), Shaw and Lee, “The Beau Brummels” (1928), Baby Rose Marie “The Child Wonder” (1929), Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields (1929), Burns and Allen in “Lambchops” (1929), Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats (1929), Sol Violinsky “The Eccentric Entertainer” (1929), Adele Rowland “Stories in Song” (192?), Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act “Behind the Lines” (192?), Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr in “At the Seashore” (192?), Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts (192?), Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors (192?), Hazel Green and Company (192?), The Ingenues in “The Band Beautiful” (192?), Joe Frisco in “The Happy Hottentots” (192?), Larry Ceballos’ Roof Garden Revue (192?), Stoll, Flynn and Company “The Jazzmania Quintet” (192?), Van and Schneck “The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland” (192?), plus cartoons and short films Finding His Voice (1929) produced by Max Fleischer, I Love to Sing (1936) directed by Tex Avery, Hollywood Handicap (MGM short with an Al Jolson appearance), A Day at Santa Anita (Technicolor Warner Bros. short with Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler cameos), and short film An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, The Voice That Thrilled the World (Warner Bros. short about sound), Okay for Sound (1946) celebrating Vitaphone’s 20th anniversary, When Talkies Were Young (1955). In addition, a 1947 Lux Radio Theater radio broadcast starring Al Jolson (audio only), and an all-new feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk.

Collector's Edition bonus printed items include a booklet with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide, souvenir program book reproduction, behind-the-scenes photo cards, lobby card reproductions, and a reproduction of a post-premiere telegram from Al Jolson to Jack L. Warner.

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