October 6, 2026: Hollywood Finds Its Voice

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

Warner Bros. was still the smaller studio chasing Paramount and MGM when it bet its future on a sound technology called Vitaphone, and the brother who pushed hardest for that bet didn't live to see whether it paid off. On October 6, 1927, The Jazz Singer premiered at the Warner Theatre in New York, becoming the first feature film to include synchronized spoken dialogue, most famously Al Jolson's line, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet." Sam Warner, the driving force behind the studio's investment in sound, had died of pneumonia the day before, and...