Billboard advertising Fox’s “Sunrise” at the Carthay Circle and Warner’s “The Jazz Singer” at the Criterion downtown Los Angeles, circa late 1927

Billboard advertising Fox’s "Sunrise" at the Carthay Circle and Warner's "The Jazz Singer" at the Criterion downtown Los Angeles, circa late 1927Here’s an interesting billboard combination. Taking up two-thirds of it is Fox’s “Sunrise” – a film not many people remember even though it was the first feature film with an actual sound track. The other third is taken up with a different movie from a different studio: Warner’s “The Jazz Singer” which, of course, we all remember. The movies came out within a month of each other and were each innovative in their own way but each with their own destiny.

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