The Spoken Words That Caused A Sensation In "The Jazz Singer" (1927) 

I love how one of the first spoken sentences in movie history was "You ain't heard nothing yet".

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet!" And thus, this line solidified itself in movie history.

imagine just vibing thinking you’re gonna see a silent film and all of a sudden you hear this

A very good first line as well "Wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin' yet!"

I can’t believe my grandma was 6 years old when this came out. She said talking movies was the biggest thing in her life time.

Imagine hearing this for the first time in 1927 you would be gobsmacked.

In 7 years, it’ll be the 100th anniversary of talkies

This guy, back then, was a super star. I read that he walked out from one of his shows and was gone for three or four hours, if not longer, before he returned to finish, and most of the audience was still there waiting for him.

I love the scene with his mother, it's so sweet.

That’d be so cool to be in the theaters witnessing this for the first time...

How would these guys react to the fact that we still watch this movie almost 95 years later, but on a device we hold in our hands while laying in bed.

I can’t imagine the shock that people must’ve felt when they heard that for the first time. It must have been insane

*This is one of the biggest masterpieces and the most shiny precious jewel in the history of the movie industry. I hope they can preserve things like this for many many generations to come. Perhaps forever.*

That is certainly a strange film in that you watch a mostly silent movie but it has a few places where you actually get to ‘ hear ‘ some of those silent characters. His mother for instance is a silent figure but in that one scene you hear her talking a little bit. Then his father comes in and yells “ stop ! “. The only word he says in the entire movie It seems rather bizarre to witness and one can only imagine how it went over when it came out, especially to movie goers that never saw any Vitaphone films before this one.

This movie is now almost 100 years old. Jolson still has a lot of charm, charisma and big screen presence in the scene shown here and it translates fairly well even now. I've never watched the Jazz Singer but he seems larger than life here just being sweet to his mama while doing his act.

Al did an impressive job in this. You have to keep in mind that Al had NO talking movies to watch, to study or prepare for this. No blueprint to look to. He was doing something that had never been tried before

The Vitaphone sound system used here utilized an enormously complex 2 part projector. The theater projectionist had to sync up a phonograph record to the film on every reel change.

synchronized sound and speech were such a radical improvement. Non longer did the camera have to cut away to a dialog card. You stayed IN the scene. I would love to have been there for this! And Jolson. Wow! It's easy to see why he was considered the world's greatest entertainer. Great channel. I subscribed immediately. Thank you.

A piece of history.

It was Jolson really who put the talkies on the map; even with the small amount of spoken dialogue in the movie, it became a smash and the rest is history. George Jessel was approached to star in ‘Jazz Singer’ but instead it went to Jolson after Jessel wanted more money

I don’t know why. This feels special. It feels almost unreal despite the audio content we consume every day.

I remember some of these scenes from the film The Aviator! Great film! Aviator director Martin Scorsese is a big fan of The Jazz Singer.

My great grandfather was a movie buff and I still have the poster reseved in mint condition. He used to collect all movies stuff for fun 😊.

I just realized that The Jazz Singer debuted when my 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were 6 or 7 years old. Meanwhile my 6 yr old nephew owns a Kindle Fire on which he can watch almost anything he wants and still isn't satisfied.

The film have fallen into public domain on January 1, 2023.

This is my Sister’s favourite Movies of the Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolsen. So we watch her a few days after Rosh Hashanah, and then watch The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond :). They are both great Films of how a parent wants his Son to go into s” the family way of life” whereas the Son, has a broader view of his love of Music, and performing his written words ... Both exceptional !! Thank you for posting this. :)

2024 here and still rate the old movies better .

It has been 95 years so this movie should be on public domain next year 2023

yall are stuck on the fact that the first line was you aint heard nothing yet and i get it. Personally I'm admiring the fact that most of the rest of the dialogue is a guy being a good son to his mother. wholesome AF, humanity is amazing sometimes

As a boy in the 1970's, I saw parts of this movie when my father watched this then. As a result of the recent breaking news of our Canadian Primer Minister wearing blackface when he was 29 years old, I started to watch The Jazz Singer. As of now, I watched the film only until the club scene where this youtube clip started.

This movie is now in the public domain, so you can upload the full movie if you want to now.

You all know what the first talking film was, but do you know what the last silent film was? This film single-handedly killed off the silent film industry. That was its influence!

"move to da Bronx..." ahh the ol days!

There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950).

I need to watch this movie some time. It looks beautiful.

It was 1927 Thursday morning I still remember when I went to the theater with my grandpa. The actor gave me an autograph too lol. Its still my favorite movie.

In 5 years this is gonna be 100 years old in 2027

Oh the good times I remember this like it was yesterday I was 25 years old at the time and I lived in Queens back then America was very very different

Amazing

The movie babylon bring me here 🤌🏽

If they thought this was a cinematic achievement just wait until they see Morbius

Welcome to the public domain!

even the font is art deco

Ya existían cortometrajes hablados (con sonido) desde varios años antes. Para quien los había visto (y oído) no debe haber sido gran sorpresa ver escenas dialogadas en El Cantor de Jazz. Fue importante como primer largometraje con este tipo de escenas. Pero habrá sido mas impresionante ver al año siguiente "Lights of New York" primera pelicula TOTALMENTE hablada, y no sólo en un par de secuencias.

What a time to been alive the 1920s and 1930s in the big cities would been, you would experienced the film, the radio, the first television, the first colour movies, electric lighting, telephones, automobiles everywhere, plane travel, and if you were very lucky, your own telegraph subscription at home to troll in (yes really, telegraph trolls were a thing)

Imagine how mindblown and happy people were about this back then. Now we have 4D cinemas or whatever, with 3d glasses, you get to watch something like Infinity War or Endgame with those cgi scenes looking realistic and breathtaking.... and people still come out of cinemas unsatisfied by everything and everyone, even their own lives.

97 years later 😮

Getting close to its 100 aniversary.

APPARENTLY IM RELATED TO THIS GUY SO UH

Walt Disney was inspired by the film to attract audiences by giving animated characters like his famous cartoon character Mickey Mouse a voice His first attempt failed miserably but he kept on going and his first animation steamboat willie became a hit

Here while watching The Fabelmans.

My great grandmother would have been a teenager when this came out. This would have probably seemed just as high tech as a ps5 is today. There was radio for decades before this so people could hear voices and there was movies but there was no sound. Would have been the first time you got both at the same time.

This day in 1927 holds the record for most cups of tea dropped on the floor in a very cliche movie kinda way

お婆ちゃんの喋り方や仕草が超リアル👍

Il primo film sonoro della storia del cinema!

FIRST MOVIE WITH SOUND!

Taken as the first film with sound syncronized to the image, but in fact the first was "The photo-drama of creation" form 1914. Its system was much better than Vitaphone.

It was less than 30 years from the first Talkie to the start of the Space Age. Two days short of one and a half score, to be exact. Oct 6, 1927 - Oct 4, 1957. Now to post this video, it would also be excellent to explain the connection between this movie and Star Trek. (Hint: Bones McCoy in particular.)

I saw The Jazz Singer shown on BBC2 1977 it was then 50 years old,will it be shown again when in 2027 when turns 100 ,yes it no doubt it will

Walt Disney saw this movie and took inspiration from Al Jolson and decided to use that in a cartoon for Mickey Mouse cartoons, WB,Chuck Jones for Bugs Bunny cartoons and MGM for Tom and Jerry cartoons.

So many old movies are hard to watch, and this was a pleasure to watch.

Anybody wish the world was still that simple?

WB and Vitaphone gets credit for sync sound but Lee Deforest was producing sound on film before Vitaphone. And that was essentially the same process used since.

This was the first cinema with a sound

My friend owns a pest control company he used to do the job in Beverly Hills the guy living there was writing a book how his grandfather created talking sound for the movies and not Cecil B DeMille don’t know if he published it or not or how true it may have been but still it was intriguing because it something you don’t hear every day and it always made me wonder

Audience: "Okay title cards. Silence. Yes yes same old same old." 0:37 Audience: 😮WTF?!

He sounds like Bob welch

This movie's about to enter the public domain in the US in January 2023.

Currently, the film is under copyright to Turner Entertainment, a subsidiary of original distributor Warner Bros., and attempts to put the full film up will likely not succeed. This won't be the case for much longer. On January 1, 2023, the copyrights to all works released in 1927 that are still in place will expire, and The Jazz Singer will enter the public domain (barring any change in copyright law in the interim). Thus, at that time, the full movie can go up on RU-vid without any problem. By the time the copyright lapses in 2023, WB will have owned the movie for 55 years, in stints of 29 years (copyright held by WB themselves) and 26 years (Turner Entertainment) separated by a 40-year stretch that occurred after WB sold its pre-1950 library to a.a.p. in 1956, in most of the 30 years leading up to Turner (then separate from WB)'s acquisition of the film in 1986, the copyright was held by United Artists Television, a result of a.a.p.'s merger with United Artists in 1958 (the last few years before the Turner acquisition, the theatrical branch of UA held the copyright due to the dissolution of UATV as a separate copyright holder).

OMG! Their talking

Just mind blowing

we use the Video in school D: S.O.S.

Wait a minute, you haven't heard nothing yet.... of course !! I can't imagine people seeing and listening this in a theater.

1927. Elizabeth II was born in 1926. She was older than talkies

The movie probably slapped when it came out

he remember me like a sheldon cooper on the big bang theory.

ppl probably lost their minds 🤩

😔 my best era .....the parties era 😂

0:34 is that Fay Wray?

What font are you using?

This was first movie that is a non-silent film and the oldest film that isn't silent

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Next year, this movie enters the public domain.

Why does the audio have better quality than Alantic (1929) aka a film that came 2 years after this film

You ain't seen nothin' yet. Just wait for the last scene mammy!

Better than mcu dont @me

Hola narvalo

Nope!! That's ours too!!

MTV unplugged 1927

Thanks to you, I can make a sponsor video and I will suggest your channel to subscribers

Is this the origin of motorcycle mama?

0:36 why didn’t the songs astound the audience too?

first music video

Since they had the means to record sounds why make half of it audible and not all of it?

the video is actually going a little fast. One needs to slow it to x0.75. 😁

You've gotta come back to the future with me!! Why Doc, do we turn into assholes? No Marty all major movie studios keep rehashing classic remakes.....some really suck!!

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His singing skills was better.

The actual beginning of talkies was in 1930's.

Weird how charlie chaplain movies made in the 1940’s don’t have sound but a 1927 movie does