Saturday, December 15, 2007

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925) - Entire movie with Lee Erwin organ score!



Wow, was this a real find for me! Archive.org actually had this edition of the movie, which I hadn't seen in over 30 years....seen here is the full-length movie. This is not only the version with the organ score by Lee Erwin (a suite is featured on the Sound of Silents album I posted in October), but this is the version featuring the sound introduction with the "man with the lantern". This was a thrill hearing this for the first time in so many years! Not certain if this brief sound introduction is from the 1929 part-sound reissue print or if it is something that was done for this particular print at some later point in either the 60's or early 70's, but if anyone has information about this edition, please let me know. Below is the link to the page it was on where it can be downloaded/saved in one of several different formats.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantomOfTheOpera_1929

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