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The Jazz Singer: Hollywood Finds Its Voice

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JOLSON
Al Jolson was already one of Broadway's biggest stars when he stepped in front of the camera, his magnetic stage energy translated to the screen in ways audiences had never experienced.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TALKIE
The word 'talkie' entered everyday speech almost overnight after October 6, 1927, as audiences demanded this thrilling new kind of picture at theaters across the country.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WARNER
Warner Bros. took the financial gamble on the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system that made synchronized dialogue possible, staking the studio's future on a single opening night.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PREMIERE
The premiere at Warner's Theater on Broadway drew enormous crowds and critics, with newspapers the next morning marveling that the screen had finally found its voice.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Jazz Singer word search, built around October 6, 1927, the night Al Jolson sang onscreen and the silent era ended for good.

About The Jazz Singer: Hollywood Finds Its Voice

On October 6, 1927, an audience settled into Warner's Theater in New York City and heard something they had never heard from a movie screen before: a voice. Al Jolson's Jazz Singer delivered synchronized dialogue and song to a feature-length film for the first time, turning a darkened room into something electric. That single premiere drew the curtain on the silent era and raised it on the talkies, transforming every studio, every stage, every reel of film that came after.

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