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

[@goatwarrior3570]

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

[@FezCaliph]

🤣👌🏾

[@justauser.4282]

It was “wait a minute, wait a minute” that were the first words

[@amabellebrena5042]

​@@justauser.4282 "one of the first"

[@larsfinlay7325]

just like how The Wizard of Oz starts in black and white to conform to 30's and 40's audience expectations

[@larsondarcy101]

I love how you stole this comment from an earlier one by Josiah Cole.

[@baronbrrrrett]

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

[@LFFunEmporium]

Fancy meeting you here

[@baronbrrrrett]

@@LFFunEmporium fancy meeting you here too. Thanks again for requesting my YTP to Billy :)

[@Julia-cp9nt]

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

[@scoopishere7881]

They probably put *INCREDIBLE NEW DAZZLING SOUND PICTURE* or something like that on the posters. A funny thought, though.

[@canadianmonarchist6357]

Good golly the pictures are talking

[@joeofmacabre07]

@@scoopishere7881 "holy molly! The picture is talking!!!"

[@ericrojasvelez8891]

Well...is like wizard of ozz....black and white....when the house hit the ground after the torna ghtdo stop...and dorothy open that door and bbaaammmm.....everything is in colors...now that will be awsome and strange for the people on the movie teather at that time 🤟

[@bzneeez]

I might have ran out of the theater, due to the shock of it all 😂

[@courvoisibean]

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

[@MysteryFields]

Talk about a fourth wall break...

[@eddiecockburn5236]

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[@nigelcorney1915]

Actually “Wait a minute” 😐😭😁

[@leejones8582]

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

[@skeletonentertainment4201]

Hehe... Gobsmacked

[@shanedaniel7]

Gobsmacked lmao

[@GoA7250]

Imagine watching it in 2020 and wondering what the hell he was going on about?

[@Jason-ib4fk]

...and possibly "flabbergasted" or even "bumfuzzled" causing one to become "discombobulated!!!" But, hopefully not so much as to cause an audience to go all "cattywampus!!!" Lol! :P

[@Paul-dw2cl]

Gobsmacked, I say, Gobsmacked!

[@princesskayla1400]

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.

[@hmoudih.1]

Is your grandmother still alive?

[@princesskayla1400]

@@hmoudih.1 sadly no. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 95.

[@FezCaliph]

That's crazy. I'm glad they figured it out

[@williamshakespeare9815]

@@princesskayla1400 She must have seen so much in her life. Just think of all the changes.

[@KentPetersonmoney]

My oldest grandmother was 3 when this came out.

[@jmen4ever257]

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.

[@joewhitehead3]

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

[@SL-cl9gt]

Wow. I was born in the 90’s... talkies were only 70 years old..... damn

[@danijelujcic8644]

Well, yes and no. Jolson himself did a short promo in 1926, and DeForest basically invented sound-on-film. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aICXp31tgquGmpY But yes, the Jazz Singer was the first "feature" film that came with sound.

[@No-hd4cg]

Actually it turns out the 100th anniversary of the talkies has already passed because the earliest sound film I could find is “Nursery Favourites” released in 1913

[@No-hd4cg]

@@danijelujcic8644 even earlier there was a 1913 sound film called “Nursery Favourites”

[@danijelujcic8644]

@@No-hd4cg true, and Edison's employees tried a short clip as early as 1895 but it was out of sync ... still fascinating, though

[@nina1522]

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

[@nicolelylewis]

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

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

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.

[@samuelh5]

“So it’s like a tiny projector, but the light comes from behind the screen? Ain’t that gonna hurt your eyes?” Then you pull out the settings and start sliding the brightness down with your finger, touching the image-then they’d really whip out the holy water!

[@annalbin]

That’s exactly what I am doing now.

[@cojaysea]

Exactly what I’m doing

[@Lizzie_Rose7]

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

[@michaelszczys8316]

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.

[@michaelszczys8316]

In that scene you also see Jolson was pretty good at playing piano almost behind his back

[@isbestlizard]

It's SO meta like the first spoken words are 'wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet!' then the last are 'STOP!" and it all goes back to being title cards again.

[@michaelszczys8316]

@@isbestlizard right, it's basically a silent movie with sound ' bits '. It just makes it have an eerie effect.

[@emperorzizen1081]

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

[@BillyBob-ec5ox]

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

[@billny33]

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.

[@antonnym214]

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.

[@Satchel334]

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.

[@ChadHolzhuter1288]

There's also a quick clip of it in Goodfellas, as well.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

Chad Holzhuter wow, I have to look out for that

[@bbenjoe]

A piece of history.

[@ArchivalPictures]

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.

[@robertives973]

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

[@jazzpianoman01]

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

[@SWASTIKB306]

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 😊.

[@adhfan75]

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.

[@glitchyjoe64]

the issue is that 6 year olds are being given kindles

[@artchem1]

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. :)

[@LongNoseBreaker]

Oy Vey

[@biscoito1r]

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

[@maxiethefox8546]

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

[@Sweetumskitty1789]

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).

[@realcanadian1]

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.

[@amirouchethelionofnumidia7092]

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

[@Romy---]

Amirouche The Lion of Numidia So you're like 118 years old?😂

[@shanedaniel7]

What???

[@duboisfrancois5697]

Romy - maybe he meant when he first saw it not when it came out lol

[@smechulockreehimbe6485]

do you mean you were 25 in 1927 or 25 when you first saw it?

[@adhfan75]

@@Romy--- Thats what I was going to ask...😂 118 or 119 yrs old?!

[@Awoodcock30]

2024 here and still rate the old movies better .

[@TheMilitantHorse]

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

[@cathywhite1729]

"This is really fun to watch, when Al Jolson sings "Toot Toot Tootsie", it's like he is the Elvis Presley of 1927, so very cool"!!!!! 🎼🎶🎤😎😎

[@danbam3411]

George W yes we get it, it makes you feel uncomfortable but unfortunately that was part of history at that time.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

In the 1960s late at night, this was shown at least twice a year on KTLA- TV channel 5.

[@Spectahman2.0]

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

[@ponyblu]

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

[@speedymolasses3062]

i was gonna say that doesn’t sound like a nice place for an old lady forgot this was 1920s lol

[@moviefiend44]

@@speedymolasses3062 Yeah before the 1970s and the "Bronx is burning" era, the Bronx was an firmly middle class borough. Very up and coming.

[@binghamguevara6814]

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!

[@tonycanabal1659]

That might have been Modern Times,starring Charlie Chaplin in 1936,since he held out of talkies until then.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@tonycanabal1659that was due to artistic reasons and as a throwback similar to Mel brooks silent movie, the last official silent movie was the poor millionaire and it didn’t even have a soundtrack

[@KentPetersonmoney]

I think people would the had sound movies in the beginning of the film industry but the technology did'nt exist yet until someone figured out how to record sound on a camera.

[@bigshexxy]

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

[@swain-Ix1tv]

i thoguht morbius got it from mr singer's iconic line "it's jazzin time" where he proceeded to jazz on everyone

[@ragingsaviorkami9862]

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.

[@Paigefilmsz]

APPARENTLY IM RELATED TO THIS GUY SO UH

[@user-lp3ep7rz1t]

lol

[@radegastov1570]

Really?

[@pjhans4516]

No you’re not

[@k9feces]

Do you carry on the minstrel tradition?

[@arvmoney11]

@@pjhans4516 nah he is i was there when he found out

[@Newdivide]

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

[@vaishnavikonidena1532]

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

[@sopeekem]

The movie babylon bring me here 🤌🏽

[@TheMan05555]

Welcome to the public domain!

[@favoritemoneymakers]

Getting close to its 100 aniversary.

[@samirbs1282]

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.

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

i don't think this happened, but cool story bro 👀

[@psyduckismlg9977]

bruh u 110 years old or something? yeah that def happened but cool story bro

[@renegadeace1735]

So are you like 102 or something?

[@Adrian_AdamViolonDiGerma-tm3nq]

He is the autograph itself

[@SMGJohn]

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)

[@hilariousgas]

even the font is art deco

[@sclitchmusic]

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

[@psp785]

Amazing

[@julieporter7805]

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

[@brt-jn7kg]

Anybody wish the world was still that simple?

[@trfjulio]

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.

[@kasipathiraorudravarapurud8358]

The photo Drama is an experiment with a sucsess full movie creation.

[@azizaryan]

97 years later 😮

[@vinagredelmal7717]

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.

[@KentPetersonmoney]

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.

[@limitlessproductions2020]

Here while watching The Fabelmans.

[@LogoAttitude]

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 KZbin 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).

[@anthonyberglas6318]

I thought the mickey mouse act was 70 years, so should have expired some time ago? Or do they keep extending it?

[@kirklindstedt2018]

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.

[@capriomrowkicz1751]

FIRST MOVIE WITH SOUND!

[@スコブル-u9n]

お婆ちゃんの喋り方や仕草が超リアル👍

[@jacobgarrity651]

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.

[@francescoperronestorico]

Il primo film sonoro della storia del cinema!

[@doylescordy]

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

[@aleyakamid471]

This was the first cinema with a sound

[@gedq]

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

[@robertkincaid]

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

[@jphi3591]

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

[@dahawk8574]

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.)

[@richarddelgado2723]

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

[@Fliftee]

The movie probably slapped when it came out

[@mrpanda6805]

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

[@maddalonefarms]

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

[@JoeStuffzAlt]

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

[@kinghiggins24]

Better than mcu dont @me

[@quixoticalmotionpictures]

Yes, it is. MCU is literal trash compared to this

[@aliriolima358]

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

[@Guyverman01]

Next year, this movie enters the public domain.

[@JuanCruz-jq9md]

No

[@CutieRingoJoy]

OMG! Their talking

[@حسينمانوس]

😔 my best era .....the parties era 😂

[@raulexodian]

Just mind blowing

[@patricia.antlitz]

ppl probably lost their minds 🤩

[@ginapott8202]

The first part talkie movie.

[@stonesharve]

He sounds like Bob welch

[@tedcabana]

93 years ago this first full length feature film premiered with synchronized dialogue, sound, and music. As blatantly racist as it was, by modern ethics. It was still an American icon of cinematic innovation, and a huge part of American cultural, and artistic history. Like it or not, it is what it is! A historic mile stone of technology. Back then it was not meant to be racist at all, (Jewish immigrants being ignorant to the struggles of African Americans at the time) but today, it would be seen as racist as fuck!

[@michaelanthony9773]

The modern world has no Ethics.

[@sorryi6685]

The dude was a huge black right supporter and he was trying to popularise black music culture which he was very successful at. Any accidental racism is completely dwarfed by his accomplishments to cinema and Black community

[@StarWarsHour]

0:34 is that Fay Wray?

[@frankfiocco8004]

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!!

[@BadassMoFo.]

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

[@No-hd4cg]

No it isn’t their is even earlier talkies this is just Warner’s first talkie plus despite being credited as “the first sound film” this and “The Singing Fool” (1928) was actually a part-talkie and both films were also released in a all-silent version and mostly had intertitles Warner’s first all-talkie was “Lights Of New York” (1928)

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@No-hd4cg I thought the movie "Don Juan "- sound was mainly from those cheap and tinny sword fights.

[@joeriveracomedy]

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

[@christianjozefb.teruel6821]

The actual beginning of talkies was in 1930's.

[@MissyCeleste]

Those same people in the theater wouldnt believe it if they knew they were in a phone nearly 100 yesrs later 💀💀 (If you are seeing this post 2027: Hello! :) )

[@londonmockett8952]

MTV unplugged 1927

[@rajchowdhury3006]

🎬🍿

[@Nick-hy6qr]

His singing skills was better.

[@MattMicucci]

Speaking to his mama like he done did a lotta cocaine.

[@guitaro5000]

Every single one of these people are dead. You will die, too. So live your life (while you still have it).

[@aghk4233]

Thnkyou

[@wesleyking2212]

Nope!! That's ours too!!

[@guillermogouldburn763]

I guess "moving to The Bronx" had a different meaning in 1927.

[@Ephisus]

Is this the origin of motorcycle mama?

[@Public_Domain_Guy]

Eugenie Besserer plays his mother; and while she never gets credited, those 13 improvised words of banter with Al Jolson made her the first woman ever to have a speaking role in a motion picture.

[@rovhalt6650]

So she had a vagina. Who cares.

[@eddiecockburn5236]

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

[@katkit4281]

His last silent film was actually Modern Times made in 1936, close to 1940, and nearly a decade after talkies began. He really did hold out feeling his comedy would not translate well to talkies.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@katkit4281 Chaplin was so rich he could keep making silent movies for at least 10 more years, but ones like Laurel and Hardy, even though they didn't want to, but after 1929 ALL their movies had to convert to sound.

[@sorryi6685]

Chaplin movie since 1930 has synchronised music and sound effects. In 1936, modern times, he actually sings in his own voice at the end of movie. And the 1940 The Dictator is full sound movie voiced by Chaplin.

[@markhorney7625]

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

[@darkpisces8125]

People don't realize or appreciate history. Our ancestors did the thinking now we're getting dumber.