the jazz singer - cinema culture

http://www.filmsite.org/jazz.html

• In 1926, Warners' risky investment of a half million dollars with Western Electric in the Vitaphone sound system brought profits of $3.5 million at the box-office with this landmark talkie
• esponsible for transforming Warners into Hollywood's hottest film factory
• The commercialization of sound-on-film, and the transformation of the industry from silent films to talkies became a reality with the success of this film.
• Although it was not the first Vitaphone (sound-on-disk) feature, it was the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action