First feature length talkie
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (Broadway)
- When
- 24 September 1927
The earliest feature length talkie was Alan Crossland's (USA) The Jazz Singer (USA 1927), which premiered on Broadway on 6 October 1927. Warner Bros.intended the sound to be confined to music and songs, but Al Jolson (USA) ad-libbed some speech, which led to 354 words spoken in all:- 340 by Jolson, 13 by Eugenie Besserer (USA), who played his mum and one by Warner Oland (Sweden), his dad - `Stop!'.