• Title
  Sound technicians setting up the turn-table and amplifiers for the first "talkies" in Australia (Warner Brothers' "Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, at the Lyceum) (The sound was recorded on a synchronized disc.)
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  Home and Away - 7666
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca. 1928]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  8675
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 glass photonegative
  
• General note
  
  The Jazz singer was made in 1927 and was the first talkie shown in Sydney in 1928 at the Lyceum Theatre -- Reference: Wesley Mission website (online)
  Digital order no:hood_07666
  Man crouching at left of photograph is Harry Waghorn. The photograph was probably taken in late 1928 in preparation for the first screenings in January 1929.
  
  Reference
  Information supplied by Paul Thomas, grandson of Harry Waghorn, October 2017
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. DG ON4/7666
• Name
  Jazz singer (film)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  films
  historic events
  loudspeakers
  projectors
  record-players
  theatres & cinemas
  
• Place
  Lyceum Theatre (214 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  

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