<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Plantation_Act" class="extiw" title="en:A Plantation Act">A Plantation Act</a></i>, 1926 short film starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson" class="extiw" title="en:Al Jolson">Al Jolson</a> in his film debut.
<p>Released on October 7, 1926 (a year before <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer" class="extiw" title="en:The Jazz Singer">The Jazz Singer</a></i>) at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Theater_(Broadway)" class="extiw" title="en:Colony Theater (Broadway)">Colony Theatre</a>, New York as part of a repertoire of films, the film was a Vitaphone ‘sound-on-disk’ recording and starred Al Jolson in blackface singing three of his hit songs: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Showers_(song)" class="extiw" title="en:April Showers (song)">"April Showers"</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-Bye_Your_Baby_with_a_Dixie_Melody" class="extiw" title="en:Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody">"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Red,_Red_Robin_(Comes_Bob,_Bob,_Bobbin%27_Along)" class="extiw" title="en:When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)">"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)"</a>.
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Thought lost until the 1990s when a silent copy was found in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" class="extiw" title="en:Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> and a separate broken sound track was repaired &amp; then synced with the film by LoC techs.
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