On this day, Warner Bros. released “The Jazz Singer”, the first full-length film with synchronised music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. Directed by Alan Crosland, the film heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era. The film depicts the fictional story of Jakie Rabinowitz, a young man who defies the traditions of his devout Jewish family. After singing popular tunes in a beer garden, he is punished by his father and runs away from home. Some years later, under the pseudonym Jack Robin, he becomes a talented jazz singer, performing in blackface, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage. The Jazz Singer was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
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