What were the first words ever said in a movie?

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"

If you are including the spoken lines interpreted in silent films, I can't venture a guess. If you're referring to the first words heard in the film "the Jazz Singer" then I could probably take a stab at it. Wroot, tell me when you find out. Could the first spoken line in a film possibly be the Jewish liturgical service known as "Kol Nidre"? (If so, then the first spoken or sung words on film are in Aramaic.)

According to the script, which I have in another window here, I was wrong. The first spoken line, spoken by Jackie in "The Jazz singer" is: "I couldn't help it -- I didn't mean to hit it so hard -- honest I didn't." The words are spoken to the charachter's father, the Rabbi, who is angered. A little earlier in the film, the sound is heard from the synagogue, where Cantor Rabinowitz teaches several children "the songs and chants of the orthodox -- the prayers set to music that has been handed down for generations." I'll leave it up to you to decide which exactly counts as the first spoken or sung word heard in a movie.

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History was made in New York on October 6th, 1927 when the very first spoken voice in a feature film was heard. The voice belonged to Al Jolson and the ground breaking movie - The Jazz Singer. The reaction by the theatre audience was immediate - they rose to their feet, applauding ecstatically. The moment came in the middle of the film when, during a nightclub scene, Jolson suddenly spoke. The first words ever spoken in a movie were, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" The words were truly prophetic in light of the massive advances taken in the realms of movie sound since that time. From the breakthrough point of the film when Jolson first spoke, the film made liberal use of the new medium. In one scene Jolson sits at the piano and exchanges lines with his mother between verses of Blue Skies. Al Jolson also ad-libbed various lines during the musical sequences of the film and these were left in.

Those were Al Jolson's first words on film. And they occur later. The first spoken line, if you read the script, was right in the first scene, by whatever child played the young Jack.

Actually, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" was the first ever spoken line. All previous dialogue in the film was on caption cards, not recorded.

He does sing a song before, called "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face", so maybe the first line ever heard in cinema is "Wonderful pals are always hard to find", which is the opening line of the song.