Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation (1929)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

270 SOUND MOTION PICTURES Jolson out-Jolson's in the movies. . . . Hear! See! Laugh! Cry with him ! Jolson makes the movies sing . . . and how! Hear Jolson sing his best song hits in the action of this powerful story. With a voice and soul! and Vitaphone giving soul . . . voice . . . life to the screen. . . . The miracle of the day. . . . Jolson . . . speaking . . . sobbing . . . laughing . . . crying . . . his best songs ... a wonder story! Come . . . hear! The silent screen speaks! Come . . . sob and laugh! See and hear two hours of miracles! You hear Jolson! You see Jolson! You love Jolson! Two hours of him! Come back stage for two hours . . . see, hear, and feel Jolson! The perfect talking picture . . . when you hear him you'll forget it's a picture! Tears and laffs! Laffs and tears! Everywhere conceded the most extraordinary entertainment ever offered! See and hear . . . Al Jolson . . . before it's too late! The magic of Jolson. . . . Two hours of him! Two hours of "Big Boy." . . . Now ... the "Big Joy" of the screen! 150,000 people have walked more than a mile to see and hear Jolson! We repeat . . . you ain't seen nothin' yet . . . until you see and hear Celebrate with "Big Boy"! See! Hear! Two hours of the world's greatest entertainer! See! Hear! Thrill! Throb! Two hours of Al Jolson! Mammy's favourite son. . . . Hear! See! Two hours of him! Hey! Hey! Los Angeles . . . the Big Boy . . . the Big Joy leaves soon!! For Mammy's sake . . . see and hear! Two hours of the Big Boy! Absolutely unpardonable to miss this "Big Boy-Big Joy" show!