The Jazz Singer - 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition in October

**Warner Home Video** has officially announced an October 16th release date for The Jazz Singer - 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (1927). The 3-disc DVD set will contain loads of bonus features as listed below. It will retail for $39.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $29.99

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano
• Collection of rare cartoons and shorts
  • I Love to Sing-a classic 1936 WB parody cartoon directed by Tex Avery
  • Hollywood Handicap classic M-G-M short with Al Jolson appearance
  • A Day at Santa Anita classic Technicolor Warner Bros. short with Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler cameo appearance
  • “Al Jolson in ‘A Plantation Act’ “1926 Vitaphone short made a year prior to The Jazz Singer
• 1947 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast starring Al Jolson
• Jolson Trailer Gallery
• All-new feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
• Two rarely-seen Technicolor excerpts from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929 WB film, most of which is considered lost)
• Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era:
  • Finding His Voice (1929 Western Electric animated promotional short, produced by Max Fleischer)
  • The Voice That Thrilled The World - Warner Bros. short about sound
  • Okay for Sound 1946 WB short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Vitaphone
  • When Talkies Were Young 1955 WB short looking back at the early talkies
  • The Voice from the Screen 1926 WB ‘demonstration’ film explores the Vitaphone technology and, looks at the making of a Vitaphone short.
• Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts
  
  • Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act: “Behind the Lines”
  • Bernado Depace: “Wizard of the Mandolin”
  • Van and Schneck: “The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland”
  • Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields
  • Hazel Green and Company
  • The Night Court
  • The Police Quartette
  • Ray Mayer & Edith Evans: “When East Meets West”
  • Adele Rowland: “Stories in Song”
  • Stoll, Flynn and Company: “The Jazzmania Quintet”
  • The Ingenues in “The Band Beautiful”
  • The Foy Family in “Chips off the Old Block”
  • Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs
  • Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors [
  • Shaw and Lee: “The Beau Brummels”
  • Larry Ceballos’ Roof Garden Revue
  • Trixie Friganza in “My Bag O’ Tricks”
  • Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts
  • Sol Violinsky: “The Eccentric Entertainer”
  • Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr in “At the Seashore”
  • Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats
  • Baby Rose Marie: “The Child Wonder”
  • Burns & Allen in “Lambchops “
  • Joe Frisco in “The Happy Hottentots”