The most popular movie of 1927 was The Jazz Singer , which introduced synchronized sound to the movies at last. Audiences were thrilled not...

Some of you are probably too young to remember, but I originally started this blog to peddle (in a non-remunerative way) something I like to...

I promised you that if I found Al Jolson performing "Toot Toot Tootsie" from The Jazz Singer with the "Wait a minute, wait a...

I've been neglecting the musically inclined part of my audience—brother Uncle Tom, Mister Muleboy, Who Am Us Anyway, among others—and to...

Okay, I admit defeat. As I've mentioned more than once, I've been working on an essay about achievements in the use of sound in mov...

Director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich has called 1928 the greatest year in the history of movies, which is definitely saying somethi...