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The Jazz Singer brought sound to feature films

Warner Bros. released it in 1927 with synchronised songs and speech

The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927 and starring Al Jolson, was the first feature-length film with synchronised dialogue sequences. Most of it was still silent, with music and title cards, but audiences reacted so strongly to the sound passages that the studios soon moved to talking pictures.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Warner Bros. released it in 1927 with synchronised songs and speech. The figure is taken from Library of Congress, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.