You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet!… Warners 1927 Jazz Singer comes to DVD
Rivalling the recent Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland set in packaging, content and extras, this landmark musical finally arrives on DVD in tremendous style - truly worthy of the high esteem in which this movie is held.
A three disc set, the first two discs contain the film, various contemporary film documentaries relating to the early years of film sound, an Al Jolson trailer gallery and a new feature-length documentary “The Dawn Of Sound”, which puts the film in context with developments in early film sound recording. The third DVD consists of over four hours of Vitaphone short films, from the sublime: the delights of George Burns and Gracie Allen in “Lambchops”, to the ridiculous: the antics of the strangely-named Sol Violinsky in “The Eccentric Entertainer”. But as a visual and sound record of some of the acts of America’s vaudeville tradition this disc is second-to-none. Also included are two surviving colour excerpts from Warners 1929 two-colour Technicolor musical “Golddiggers Of Broadway” (but early pressings have the ballet from “The Rogue Song” incorrectly substituted for one of these.)
Any self-respecting film buff MUST have this set.