The Jazz Singer
1928
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Frederick Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer (1927).
Alan Crosland (1894-1936) Director. Writer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Director Alan Crosland was born in New York City on August 10, 1894, into an upper-middle class family, which soon moved to East Orange, NJ, where Alan was reared.
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Frederick Alan Crosland Jr. (June 19, 1918 – December 18, 2001) was a prolific director and editor of film and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Crosland directed nearly 70 films and television episodes between 1954 and 1984.
Jan 6, 2002 · Crosland, Alan, Jr. Director, Film Editor Alan Crosland Jr., a prominent Motion Picture and Television Director and Film Editor, died quietly December 18, 2001 in his home in Palm Desert, CA.
Dec 29, 2019 · Often presented as the first talking film, it is mostly a silent film which includes nine scenes with lip-synchronous singing, two of which also include a few spoken words. To watch the first...
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1927. The Jazz Singer is widely believed to be the first sound film, despite clear and overwhelming evidence to the contrary; it was, however, the first film with a synchronized music and vocal track to truly capture the public imagination, ushering in the sound revolution.
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
