A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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202 COMES THE REVOLUTION" The Jazz Singer opened on the evening of October 6, 1927, and made history. It was not an all-talking picture, for a good part of it was silent. For one thing, The Jazz Singer turned out to be a box-office gold mine that made over two million dollars for the Warners and set them on their feet financially. It made a movie star out of Jolson. But above all, it turned the film industry topsy-turvy and consigned the silent picture to the scrap heap.