Modern Era · North America · Culture
1927
The Jazz Singer opens in New York
October 6, 1927
Al Jolson turned to the camera and said, Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet. Audiences nearly jumped out of their seats. Sound had entered cinema. Within three years the silent film industry, with its mime geniuses and orchestral pits, was gone, and Hollywood spoke a new commercial language.
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Also in 1927 (4 other events on record)
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- Lindbergh lands in Paris · Europe · Technology
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- Trotsky expelled from Communist Party · Europe · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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