|The Man|Jolson Journey
In January, 1913, Jolson appeared in a silent film, showing the final scene of Act I of the Broadway play The Honeymoon Express, one of his first stage vehicles. The next year, in 1914, he was filmed in a short entitled Hunting the Ferocious and Extinct Cuckoo, shown the following year at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition. And finally,
Al Jolson did a short piece for the Vitagraph Film Company in 1918, that was shown to the Patrolman's Benevolent Association fund for the children of policemen killed in service. It was shown once, during a special police performance of Sinbad on May 11, 1918. When Jolson found out that the PBA was going to receive only 40% of the profits, rather than all as he had been promised, he ordered the film confiscated and destroyed. No copies of any of these are known to exist, though.
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