The Jazz Singer

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/the-jazz-singer

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the release year?1927
2. What is the studio?Warner Bros
3. What was special about The Jazz Singer?It was the first long movie to have singing and talking that matched the pictures, using a new sound system called Vitaphone.
4. Who sang in The Jazz Singer?Al Jolson, a famous singer and actor, sang songs like "My Mammy" and said lines like "Wait a minute, wait a minute."

Intertitles: Text cards inserted into silent films to convey dialogue or narrative exposition.
Vitaphone: An early sound-on-disc system used for synchronized sound in motion pictures.
Assimilation: The process by which a person or group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group.