What Was The First Movie To Have Sound. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era. Virtually overnight silent film disappeared and Hollywood became a talking film factory.
Its not exactly The Wizard of Oz. Stokowski suggested that Disney. Virtually overnight silent film disappeared and Hollywood became a talking film factory.
Stokowski suggested that Disney.
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan CroslandIt is notable as the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences. The Viking was the first film to use color and have sound but the sound was only sound effects and no dialog. Warner Brothers and Vitaphone had earlier been releasing shorts in which people sang and told jokes and released a feature-length film called Don Juan which contained a musical score in 1926 the year before Al Jolson sang Mammy on film. In 1926 Warner Brothers released the film Don Juan--the first film with a synchronized film score--along with a program of talking shorts.
