{"id":22360,"date":"2012-10-08T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22360"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:52:57","slug":"warners-jazz-singer-blu-ray-packed-with-early-talkie-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/08\/warners-jazz-singer-blu-ray-packed-with-early-talkie-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner&#8217;s JAZZ SINGER Blu-Ray Packed With Early Talkie Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22367\" title=\"The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re a fan of the early talkie period of classic cinema, you will most definitely want to check out the upcoming blu-ray release from Warner Brothers of <strong>The Jazz Singer<\/strong>, the film that started it all.<\/p>\n<p>The set won&#8217;t be out until January 8, but in the meantime the studio has released details of the set to get our mouth&#8217;s watering.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audio commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Project) and Vince Giordano<\/li>\n<li>A collection of vintage cartoons and shorts (Al Jolson in <strong>A Plantation Act<\/strong>, <strong>An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee<\/strong>,<strong> I Love to Singa<\/strong>, <strong>Hollywood Handicap<\/strong> and <strong>A Day At Santa Anita<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>The 1947 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast of &#8220;The Jazz Singer&#8221; starring Al Jolson<\/li>\n<li>Theatrical trailer<\/li>\n<li>The feature-length The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk documentary<\/li>\n<li>2 rare excerpts from <strong>Gold Diggers Of Broadway<\/strong> (a 1929 WB film, most of which is considered lost)<\/li>\n<li>Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era (<strong>Finding His Voice<\/strong>, <strong>The Voice That Thrilled The World<\/strong>, <strong>Okay For Sound<\/strong>, <strong>When Talkies Were Young<\/strong> and <strong>The Voice From The Screen<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>A collection of rare Vitaphone shorts (nearly 3 and a half hours worth) many considered lost for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The set will be released as a blu-ray book with the below cover art. While I personally would like something similar to the original poster art as shown above, I think the overall package is amazing enough to ignore such a minor quibble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JazzSingerbluraybook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22368\" title=\"JazzSingerbluraybook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JazzSingerbluraybook-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JazzSingerbluraybook-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JazzSingerbluraybook-550x678.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JazzSingerbluraybook.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">An amazing package for the release of the first feature length talkie.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/08\/warners-jazz-singer-blu-ray-packed-with-early-talkie-treasures\/\" title=\"Warner&#8217;s JAZZ SINGER Blu-Ray Packed With Early Talkie Treasures\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5721,5722],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-al-jolson","9":"tag-the-jazz-singer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22360"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=22360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}