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The Jazz Singer: 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
November/01/07 10:07 PM Filed in: Joe Szadkowski
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This three disk set presents a film historian's dream loaded with background on the 1927 film and embellished with extras from the period.
The goods: This three-disc DVD package offers a digitally restored version of the 89-minute ground-breaking movie that synchronized sound to celluloid, but also explores its impact and historical context through an abundance of onscreen and hand-held extras.
The bads: Bad sound synchronization and washed out colors (just kidding ...)
The mandatory extras: An optional commentary track from film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano along with the 85-minute documentary "The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk,"
Above and beyond: An entire disc packed Vitaphone shorts that revealed to theater audiences the power of sound mirrored to image along with portfolios of mini-reproductions of production notes and photos of the stars.
What I learned? Case Research Labs' AEO light was the key to the early recording of sound on film.
Fuel the disc revolution: Nothing here to tweak the technophiles interest other than a reflection of how far cinema has advanced.
— Joseph Szadkowski