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USS Texas and an early talking picture at sea

A viewer suggests The Jazz Singer as Texas's 1927 talking picture, while the reply tentatively recalls a western and cannot confirm the title.

Question

What talking picture did USS Texas screen aboard ship in 1927?

Short answer

It may have been a western, but the title is not confirmed here.

Notes

The question credits USS Texas with screening the first talking picture aboard a US Navy vessel and suggests Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer. The reply recalls having written down the title elsewhere, but can offer only a tentative memory that it was a western. Neither suggestion is confirmed, so the film remains unidentified in this exchange.