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{{Infobox Film
| name=The Jazz Singer
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Alan Crosland]]
| producer=
| writer=Samson Raphaelson (original play)<br>Alfred A. Cohn (adaptation)
| starring=[[Al Jolson]]<br/>May McAvoy<br/>Warner Oland<br>Eugenie Besserer<br>
| music=Louis Silvers
| cinematography=Hal Mohr
| editing=Harold McCord
| distributor=[[Warner Brothers]]
| released=October 6, 1927
| runtime=88 minutes
| country=[[United States]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$422,000
| gross=$3,000,000
}}
'''''The Jazz Singer''''' is a 1927 musical/drama starring Al Jolson.  It is known as the first feature-length film with audible dialogue (a "talkie").  It entered the [[public domain]] on Jan. 1, 2023.

The dialogue occurs only during a few minutes of the movie; in one instance between the verses of a musical number.  However the rest of the film has a soundtrack of background music and sound effects.  John Barrymore's ''Don Juan'' had used a similar music and sound effect soundtrack the previous year, but it was the dialogue in the Jolson movie which caused a sensation and led to a rapid conversion of the film industry to sound.  The first feature-length film with dialogue throughout, ''The Lights of New York'', was released soon after.

This movie has actual footage of [[New York City]] at the time (1927), which adds to its historical interest.

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