:15:02
When Lon Chaney did speak, it would
be for Louis B Mayer, not Carl Laemmle.
:15:08
Universal's talking Phantom
required some technical sleight of hand.
:15:12
Universal retrofit
the original Phantom in sound.
:15:16
Prohibited by contract
from dubbing Chaney's voice,
:15:19
Universal wrote his dialogue in the third
person, as if delivered by an emissary,
:15:24
and looped it only over shots of his
shadow, avoiding mouth synchronisation.
:15:29
Don't be afraid.
:15:32
No harm shall come to you, Christine.
:15:36
The Master is waiting.
:15:39
Walk to the mirror.
:15:44
Have no fear.
:15:50
40 per cent of the film
was reshot in synchronous sound.
:15:53
Trade papers called
the result "breathtalking".
:15:56
But the microphone rang down
the curtain on the careers
:15:59
of both Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry.
:16:02
You know, I wonder what prompted
them to give you this chance.
:16:08
Why, my voice, naturally.
:16:11
The new opera inserts were staged
by director Ernst Laemmle,
:16:16
filmed by locked-off cameras.
:16:22
She is singing
to bring down the chandelier!