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99 years ago today, the part-talkie film The Jazz Singer premiered. It was the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. (en.wikipedia.org)
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99 years ago today, the part-talkie film The Jazz Singer premiered. It was the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the first words ever spoken in a feature film were, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” — delivered by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927). (en.wikipedia.org)
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