what can say this german count about this film . what can a german aristocrat say who deeply love ( besides his fat german heiress ) the silent cinema . what then can be say about a film that be well know for be the first talkie ( well that not technically true and it more a synchronized film ) in film history . a you can understand and mein liebers and it very hard and very troublesome and very sad and very much and indeed and to talk about this talkie film . german word fail this count ( that a perfect excuse for a silent film fan ) when we think about what the jazz singer mean to film history . the film be a typical 20 melodrama with a son of a jewish cantor who want to be a jazz singer . ah and and that a problem and indeed . the youngster always defy tradition and have no respect for the elder they begin want to be modern singer and finally want to make talkie . the jazz singer be the talk of the town and it true . thanks to the adventure of jakie rabinowitz and some bizarre song and henceforth the cinema wasn not the same . the public preferred simple talkie story and forget the poetry and the visual beauty and the scenery and the slapstick and the german expressionism and the frenchified film and the avant garde movement and the pola negri whip and the brook hairdo and metropolis and the garbo face and the sunrise of two human and etc . the magnificent film narrative of the silent film that at that time be especially brilliant be at the beginning of the end of a beautiful dream a splendorous and unique era of the film history . and now and if you will allow me and i must temporarily take my leave because this german count have talk himself out with his respect for the film of the silent era .