Today in Film History (October 6th, 1927): "The Jazz Singer" is Released to U.S. Theaters!
Jay B
On October 6th, 1927, the Warner Bros. produced film, "The Jazz Singer" is released to U.S. theaters! The film was the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. Its release created the market for sound films, and killed off the era of silent films with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology. Alfred A. Cohn was nominated for Best Writing (Adaption) at the 1st Academy Awards in 1928. The film grossed $2.6 million in the box office, on a $422,000 budget. In January 2023, the film entered the public domain alog with all works published in the U.S. in 1927.