August 27, 2013 (XXVII:1) Alan Crosland, THE JAZZ SINGER (1927, 88 min) Academy Awards—1929—Honorary Award (Warner Bros.) for producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry. National Film Registry—1996 Directed by Alan Crosland Adapted for film by Alfred A. Cohn Based on the short story by Samson Raphaelson (“The Day of Atonement”) Original music by Louis Silvers Cinematography by Hal Mohr Edited by Harold McCord Al Jolson...Jakie Rabinowitz May McAvoy...Mary Dale Warner Oland...The Cantor Eugenie Besserer...Sara Rabinowitz Otto Lederer...Moisha Yudelson Crossland directed John Barrymore in Don Juan, which had sync Richard Tucker...Harry Lee sound effects and music, but no dialogue, using Vitaphone. Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt…Cantor Rosenblatt - Concert Recital SAMSON RAPHAELSON (b. March 30, 1894, New York City, ALAN CROSLAND (b. August 10, 1894, New York City, New New York—d. July 16, 1983, New York City, New York) has 45 York—d. July 16, 1936, Hollywood, California, car accident) writing credits, among them 1988 “American Playhouse,” 1980 directed 68 films, among them 1936 The Case of the Black Cat, The Jazz Singer (play), 1965 “Wolken am Himmel,” 1959 1935 The Great Impersonation, 1935 King Solomon of “Startime,” 1956 Hilda Crane (play), 1955 “Lux Video Theatre,” Broadway, 1935 It Happened in New York, 1935 The White 1952 “Broadway Television Theatre,” 1949 “The Ford Theatre Cockatoo, 1934 The Case of the Howling Dog, 1934 Massacre, Hour” 1949 In the Good Old Summertime, 1947 Green Dolphin 1933 Hello, Sister!, 1932 Week Ends Only, 1930 Captain Street, 1946 The Harvey Girls, 1943 Heaven Can Wait, 1941 Thunder, 1930 Viennese Nights, 1930 Big Boy, 1930 General Skylark (play and novel), 1941 Suspicion, 1940 The Shop Around Crack, 1929 On with the Show!, 1928 The Scarlet Lady, 1928 the Corner, 1935 Dressed to Thrill, 1935 La veuve joyeuse, 1934 Glorious Betsy, 1927 The Jazz Singer, 1927 Old San Francisco, Caravane 1934 The Merry Widow, 1934 Caravan, 1934 1927 The Beloved Rogue, 1927 When a Man Loves, 1926 Don Runaway Queen, 1932 Trouble in Paradise, 1932 One Hour with Juan, 1925 Bobbed Hair, 1924 Sinners in Heaven, 1924 You, 1931 The Smiling Lieutenant, and 1927 The Jazz Singer. Unguarded Women, 1923 Enemies of Women, 1922 The Face in the Fog, 1922 The Prophet's Paradise, 1922 Why Announce Your ALFRED A. COHN (b. March 26, 1880, Freeport, Illinois—d. Marriage?, 1922 Shadows of the Sea, 1920 Everybody's February 3, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) has 41 writing Sweetheart, 1920 The Point of View, 1920 The Flapper, 1920 credits, some of which are 1934 Harold Teen, 1932 Me and My Jennie, 1919 The Country Cousin, 1918 The Whirlpool, 1917 The Gal, 1931 The Cisco Kid, 1929 Divorce Made Easy, 1929 Her Apple-Tree Girl, 1917 The Little Chevalier, 1917 Knights of the Husband's Women, 1929 The Carnation Kid, 1929 The Last Square Table, 1917 The Light in Darkness, 1917/II Kidnapped, Warning, 1928 We Americans (adaptation / screenplay), 1928 and 1916 The Fear Market. A year before The Jazz Singer, The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris, 1927 The Gorilla, 1927 The Jazz Singer (adaptation), 1927 The Cat and the Canary Crosland—THE JAZZ SINGER—2 (adaptation), 1927 Frisco Sally Levy, 1926 The Midnight Kiss Sawdust, 1924 Isn't Life Wonderful, 1921 Dream Street, 1920 (adaptation / screenplay), 1925 His People (adaptation / Way Down East. screenplay / titles), 1925 Private Affairs, 1924 Half-a-Dollar Bill (titles), 1923 Fashion Row (titles), 1923 The Drums of Jeopardy HAL MOHR (b: August 2, 1894, San Francisco, California—d. (titles), 1923 The Unknown Purple (titles), and 1923 Jazzmania May 10, 1974, Santa Monica, California) won two Academy (titles). Awards, his first in 1936 for Best Cinematography for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), for which he was the first and LOUIS SILVERS (b. September 6, 1889, New York City, New only write-in nominee to actually win, and again in 1944 for Best York—d. March 26, 1954 in Hollywood, California) contributed Cinematography, Color, for Phantom of the Opera (1943), which to the music departments on 240 films, including 1939 Swanee he shared with W. Howard Greene. He has been the River, 1939 Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939 Hollywood cinematographer for 144 films, among them 1968 The Bamboo Cavalcade (composer: stock music), 1939 Here I Am a Stranger, Saucer, 1965 Invisible Diplomats (director of photography), 1939 Stanley and 1962 The Creation of the Livingstone, 1939 Second Humanoids, 1961 “Father of the Fiddle, 1939 Susannah of the Bride” (TV series), 1961 Mounties, 1939 Rose of Underworld U.S.A. (director of Washington Square, 1939 photography), 1958 The Gun The Little Princess, 1939 Runners, 1958 The Lineup Tail Spin (composer: stock (director of photography), 1957 music), 1939 Jesse James Baby Face Nelson, 1956 The Boss, (composer: stock music), 1953-1954 “I Married Joan” (7 1939 Three Little Sew and episodes), 1953 The Wild One Sews (composer: stock (director of photography), 1952 music), 1938 Kentucky, 1938 The Member of the Wedding, 1952 Just Around the Corne, 1938 The Four Poster, 1952 Rancho I'll Give a Million, 1938 Notorious (director of Little Miss Broadway, 1938 photography), 1951 The Big Night, Kentucky Moonshine, 1938 1950 Woman on the Run (director Four Men and a Prayer, of photography), 1949 Johnny 1938 Happy Landing, 1938 Holiday, 1948 Another Part of the Termites of 1938 (composer: Forest, 1947 Song of stock music), 1937 Ali Baba Scheherazade, 1945 Salome Goes to Town, 1937 Life Begins in College, 1937 Thin Ice, 1937 Where She Danced, 1944 Enter Arsene Lupin, 1944 The Climax, Wake Up and Live, 1937 Café Metropole, 1937 Seventh Heaven, 1943 Top Man, 1943 Watch on the Rhine (director of 1937 In Old Chicago, 1936 One in a Million, 1936 Stowaway, photography), 1943 Phantom of the Opera, 1940 When the 1936 Legion of Terror (composer: stock music), 1936 End of the Daltons Rode (director of photography), 1939 Destry Rides Trail (composer: stock music), 1936 Sing, Baby, Sing, 1936 Sins Again (director of photography), 1936 The Green Pastures of Man, 1936 Private Number, 1936 Under Two Flags, 1936 (photography), 1936 Bullets or Ballots (photography), 1935 Captain January, 1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (composer: Captain Blood (photographed by), 1935 A Midsummer Night's stock music), 1936 A Message to Garcia (composer: stock Dream (photography), 1934 Charlie Chan's Courage, 1934 music),1936 The Country Doctor, 1936 The Prisoner of Shark David Harum, 1934 Carolina, 1934 As Husbands Go, 1933 The Island, 1935 Professional Soldier, 1935 Crime and Punishment, Devil's in Love (photographed by), 1933 State Fair 1935 The Black Room, 1935 Love Me Forever, 1934 No Greater (photographed by), 1932 Lady with a Past (photographed by), Glory, 1934 It Happened One Night (composer: stock music), 1931 The Common Law (photography), 1931 A Woman of 1930 Captain Thunder (conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra), 1930 Experience (photography), 1931 The Front Page, 1930 Free Scarlet Pages (conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra), 1930 Outward Love, 1930 Outward Bound (photography), 1930 Czar of Bound (conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra), 1930 Moby Dick Broadway, 1930 King of Jazz, 1929 Shanghai Lady, 1929 (conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra), 1929 So Long Letty, 1929 Broadway, 1928 Noah's Ark (photography), 1928 Tenderloin, Gold Diggers of Broadway (conductor), 1929 No Defense, 1928 1928 The Honeymoon, 1927 The Girl from Chicago, 1927 The The Terror, and 1927 The Jazz Singer. In addition, he has Last Performance, 1927 The Jazz Singer (photography), 1927 composed music for 26 films, including 1943 The Powers Girl, Slightly Used, 1927 The Heart of Maryland, 1927 Old San 1939 Stanley and Livingstone, 1936 Fibbing Fibbers , 1936 Francisco (photography), 1927 A Million Bid, 1927 Bitter Ladies in Love, 1935 Crime and Punishment, 1935 The Black Apples, 1926 The Third Degree, 1926 Sparrows (photography), Room, 1934 One Night of Love, 1934 Black Moon, 1933 Dancing 1925 Little Annie Rooney (photography), 1925 He Who Laughs Lady, 1933 Stage Mother, 1930 Mammy, 1929 Madonna of Last, 1924 A Woman Who Sinned, 1920 The Deceiver, 1920 The Avenue A, 1929 Frozen River, 1929/I Sonny Boy, 1929 The Golden Trail, 1914 Salomy Jane, and 1912 Panama-Pacific Redeeming Sin, 1929 Weary River, 1928 The Barker, 1928 The International Groundbreaking Ceremony (documentary short), Singing Fool, 1928 The Terror, 1928 State Street Sadie, 1927 and has directed 6 films, which are 1943 Watch on the Rhine, Good Time Charley, 1927 The Jazz Singer, 1925 Sally of the 1937 When Love Is Young, 1917 The Big Idea , 1917 Perils of Crosland—THE JAZZ SINGER—3 the Secret Service, 1914 Pan's Mountain , and 1913 Last Night of MAY MCAVOY (b. September 8, 1899, New York City, New the Barbary Coast (documentary short). York—d. April 26, 1984, Los Angeles, California) has appeared in 89 films, including 1959 Ben-Hur, 1957 Gun Glory, 1957 The HAROLD MCCORD (b. July 30, 1893, New York—d. November Wings of Eagles, 1954 Executive Suite, 1952 The Bad and the 3, 1957, Hollywood, California) edited 8 films, including 1928 Beautiful, 1942 Born to Sing, 1940 Dulcy, 1929 No Defense, Noah's Ark, 1928 The Singing Fool, 1928 The Lion and the 1929 Stolen Kisses, 1928 The Terror, 1928 The Lion and the Mouse, 1927 The Jazz Singer, 1927 Old San Francisco, 1927 Mouse, 1928/II Sunny California , 1928 The Little Snob, 1927 If I When a Man Loves, 1926 Don Juan, and 1921 I Do . Were Single, 1927 A Reno Divorce, 1927 The Jazz Singer, 1927 Slightly Used, 1927 Irish Hearts, 1927 Matinee Ladies, 1926 The Fire Brigade, 1926 The Savage, 1926 The Road to Glory, 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1925 Lady Windermere's Fan, 1925 Tessie, 1924 The Bedroom Window, 1923 Her Reputation, 1923 Grumpy, 1922 The Top of New York, 1922 Through a Glass Window, 1921 Morals, 1921 Everything for Sale, 1920 The Truth About Husbands, 1920 The Forbidden Valley, 1920 Man and His Woman, 1920 My Husband's Other Wife, 1919 Love Wins, 1919 The Way of a Woman, 1918 A Perfect Lady, and 1918 To Hell with the Kaiser! WARNER OLAND (b.