First feature length talkie

According to Official Guinness Records,

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!'.

For a complete list of 1927 records, please visit 1927 Guinness Records in United States.

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