(1929 reissue with sychronized soundtrack)nA Universal Picture.nn"The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), A Universal super-production. Directed b...
(1929 reissue with sychronized soundtrack)nA Universal Picture.nn"The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), A Universal super-production. Directed by Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick, Lois Weber and Lon Chaney. (Ernst Laemmle directed new talking sequences, now lost, for the 1929 reissue).nnCast: LON CHANEY (The Phantom), Mary Philbin (Christine) Norman Kerry (Vicomte Raoul de Chagny), Arthur Edmund Carewe (Ledoux), Gibson Gowland (Joseph Buquet), Bernard Siegel (Simon Buquet), Snitz Edwards (Florine Papillon), John Saint Polis (Comte Philippe de Chagny), Mary Fabien (Carlotta, 1929 reissue), Virginia Pearson (Carlotta, Carlotta´s mother, 1929 reissue)nnThe Bal Masque scene is The only one Technicolor sequence (red/green negatives) that survive now (maybe photographed by W. Howard Greene) of the several color scenes of the film (lost forever and survived in B/W) this proceed from 1929 talking & sound reissue. Preserved by the film restorer David H. Shepard. Lab work by YCM, Cinetech & Cinema Arts Inc.nThe Opera roof sequence is in Handschiegl process color (color artificially added to selected areas of the B/W film image with Aniline dyes), reconstructed by color computer colorization, made by CST Entertainment Inc.nRestoration produced by Kevin Brownlow, David Gill & Patrick Stanbury.nSynchronized soundtrack (in Vitaphone discs) by Hugo Riesenfeld, David Broekman Joseph Cherniavsky, Arthur Jentsch, William Schiller for the 1929 sound reissue. All discs survive.nnI AM NOT THE OWNER OF THE COPYRIGHT FOR THIS FILM. THE DIFUSION OF THIS PICTURE IS ONLY FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. Less
