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The Jazz Singer and the end of silence
Burbank, California
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Warner Brothers was the weakest of the majors and gambled on sound because it had least to lose. The film is mostly silent with a few sung numbers and a line of ad-libbed dialogue, and within three years every studio in town had converted and a generation of silent stars was unemployed.
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