If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check →“sort of” correct answer, but not really. The earliest “sound” movies were made by synchronizing motion pictures to phonograph records. In 1926, (a year before “The Jazz Singer”) Warner Brothers re-released the previously silent film “Don Juan” with a soundtrack recording done by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/al-jolson-hero-villian/ Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First-nighters_posing_for_the_camera_outside_the_Warners%27_Theater_before_the_premiere_of_%22Don_Juan%22_with_John_Barrymore,_-_NARA_-_535750.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/116153022@N02/16244722046 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Jazz_Singer.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jolson_1916.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Jolson_1924.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heart_of_NY.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Jolson_Jazz_Singer.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JazzSingerJackMother.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groucho_Marx_-_portrait.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson#/media/File:Jolson_black.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Jolson_-_publicity.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EubieBlake.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noble_Sissle_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JazzsingerPP.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Formation_of_K.K.K._parade,1925.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Jolson_singing_on_his_radio_show_1942.jpg Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.