Talk:The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)

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Make-Up
"Chaney pulled his eyeballs out from their sockets with thin wires, so that his eyes appeared to bulge out and their sockets became very deep." How exactly do you pull your eyeballs out from their sockets with thin wires? Emanresu27 (talk) 21:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe that Chaney ran a wire around his head just beneath (or maybe just above) his eyeballs, and tightened it to make them bulge, disguising the wire with makeup. It would seem that this might have the intended effect, but I really don't like to think about it for very long. WHPratt (talk) 20:07, 3 April 2009 (UTC) I read about this trick in the context of Chaney's makeup for London After Midnight (1927).  Photos from that (lost) film really demonstrate the pop-eyed effect.  Not too sure of the use of the trick in Phantom. WHPratt (talk) 14:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

According to several articles in issues of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine, Lon Chaney Sr. , really punished himself for his craft. I don't recall ever hearing about the eye wires - not discounting it - but, he also put metal tri-pod like devices in his nostrils to make his nose point up , and supposedly put celluloid discs in his mouth - under the cheek area - to distort his features as well , for the role of Erik. I don't have an EXACT source to quote this information from, but , all things considered , as outlandish or crazy as we may find his techniques today … he probably did even scarier things that we don't know about! 75.104.163.77 (talk) 18:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Rubbsh
Universal Pictures never intended to tear down the soundstage containing the opera house. instead it was used in many other movies, for example in dracula or in the remake of the phantom in 1943. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.180.67.83 (talk) 13:14, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Public domain
Is this film in the public domain? Are the images said to be used as fair use in the public domain? Hackwrench (talk) 13:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Article near bottom notes it is in the public domain in the United States. Deanlaw (talk) 13:08, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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Lon Chaney's Uncredited Appearance?
I cannot recall the source, perhaps "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine , but , the "stage hand" , whom goes into great detail about "The Phantom"'s physical appearance - frightening the chorus girls - is said to be Lon Chaney. I watched the scene several times, and the performer does bare more than a passing resemblance. ( It would've also made for a great in-joke to have him describing his own make-up! ) 75.104.163.77 (talk) 18:40, 26 September 2017 (UTC)