The Phantom of the Opera (Part 1) 1925

[Augustderadlige]

Who is the composer of the music?

[alienleung]

@Augustderadlige The music Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.

[whaleANDoctopus]

So for the first two minutes all we see is a light.

[supperbass96]

OMG. I ♥ the phantom. He's so sexy w his mask...

[theretrogamer14]

a classicc, up there with the universal monsters LONG LIVE LON CHANEY

[multicomicbookgeek]

in the begining what is the name of that wonderful music

[pinkadilly123]

It's hard to get used to the fact that this was before the Broadway version. I keep expecting the theme and other songs to suddenly play, but it never does. haha :) I love this though!

[GreekMythFan7]

first time watching a silent film. It is POTO so it will probally rock

[Calamistrate]

theres a song with a video of phantom of opera inside it but i cant rmmber the tittle can u guys tell me wat song it is

[ashh120]

this film is the same age as my grandmaaa o.O

[lunadreams123love]

I don't really get tis but is was very freaking creepy I stop watching is at the middle of the movie sheeesh

[XxDrMaNgOxX]

@lunadreams123love That made no sense..

[childofdarkness300]

it's nice to not have to pause the video just to read the words

[harmonicaman008]

This is the best version.....a scary phantom

[Treyskywalker77]

what's the name of this song?

[harmonicaman008]

@Treyskywalker77

Schubert's unfinished symphony first movement

[shdw21dncr]

@sk8rguy4life1123 Watch "Singing in the Rain" and see all the troubles of combining sound and video reenacted. Great movie and very entertaining.

[MDthornton83]

So this is the original film. Interesting.

[tinsh0es]

I guess the idea was that Schubert goes with anything...

[MsXxxKittiexxx]

damn this film is older than my gramma

[n2i2c2k2y]

Is there meant to be music over, so you can hear what they are saying ?

[EpicF4iLx23]

can someone pls tell me the color of this iknow its black and white but when i watch black and white films like the stooges it looks way dif btw great silent film chaney ftw

[EpicF4iLx23]

@CherishBearish7 my great grandma was alive to she was 10 yrs and passed away in 2007 =( we all miss are great grandparents they had some great films and can you plz tell me what color is this know its black and white but when i watch the three stooges it looks way diff from this black and white thank you =D

[missbs1]

I have read that when this film went to the cinemas, it was like the worst horror movie:)

And when the phantom showed his face, it was several times happened to people in the audience fainted

What if they had seen the films we think are scary now ... : S

[almostballerina]

@missbs1 it's true that this used to be a horrible movie, so were Nosferatus. Nosferatus was so terrible that it was forbidden to show it in cinemas in Swedish. Yeah i think often that what if people at beginning of 19th century would have seen "our" horror movies, they would probably have had an heartattact :D

[MrEriken]

@missbs1 old comment but, heart attack to them all.

[spider1g5]

I have a few silent favorites. Like the Zorro (1920), The General (Buster Keaton), The Black Pirate (1923)

[holly1849]

@CherishBearish7 How old are you..cause i was born on 1991...and your grand mother ..gosh..That was awesome, she lived so many years....

[holly1849]

1925..Oh my god....This was when my great grand mother was still living....Poor thing she died in 1950.....

[Brazilady]

is this the original soundtrack?

[Brazilady]

this is when my mother was born...I can't see anything

lol

[cowgrl1234567]

i look this movie!

[gzel17]

man, this movie is dark

im like ' what is  that?' 'is that a person?' ' thank god i see a light'

[jinchengfredde]

0:00 -- 0:18 love the opening theme :D

[CutandPrintFilms]

Schuburts 'Unfinished' Symphony

[EliseSeak96]

colorless but meaningful

[stefantyler1]

the song on the first seems to be the same with the soundtrack of the "Smurfes"

[williedb47]

Wonderful video. I love the old classics from long ago. Thanks for sharing. Nadine:)

[sofiaflar]

the movie at the back.in front,the orchestra playing the mysic.one magic night somwhere in thessaloniki some years ago!

[19myself91]

Carla Laemmle who played one of the ballet girls is still alive today! shes also the only one of the whole movie who is still around.

[a45027]

@19myself91 Or any of the old Universal films for that matter. She was also as the girl in the beginning of the 1931 Dracula.

[Rayla840]

I actually own this on VHS. My sister is so jealous

[AnnaCrusoeable]

schlechte Qualität!

[IHteUsernames]

@AnnaCrusoeable It's from 1925, what do you expect!

[FretboardToAsh]

The movie really fits the music, even without the voices the actors nail it. Shows just how powerful music and actors can be.

[StarLaughter15]

okay so he stands there for like an hour then just moves off....wow....

[skankinruby]

Crazy movie, I hope one day they play this on the big screen at the El Capitan in hollywood I wll be there in a heartbeat

[BodomBlackWidow]

lol i love silent film actors they make me laugh :)

[Beerlejuice]

This film is still rather freaky and scary to this day, due to Lon Chaney's terrifying performance!  Excellent film!

[colliric]

That music was used in the Universal Monsters film series as the Theme.

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Lon Chaney & Mary Philbin are wonderful in this adaption of Leroux' novel.

Thanks for posting this PTOPedro ! :)

[ReviewCam]

This is terrific! Wonderful as the broadway show was, the Phantom of the Opera is still a horror story. The movie missed the mark on that even worse than the broadway production did. When that mask is lifted it damn well needs to be scary.

[USAGlobalVideoCorp]

i want to see when he breaks into the shop to get his music score back and spills acid on his face. then dives into the sewer to make it his home.

[trangnguyen219]

seem like everything so confuse

[morissette83]

Que fixe :-D ahahahahah com Schubert a dar o mote... Bruta| mesmo.

[colliric]

@morissette83

it was also used in the later "Universal Monsters" film series as the theme. Dracula, The Invisible Man and Frankenstien all used the first few bars of it over the titles.

[bachilles009]

I love old movies like these

[KaitouSamurai2]

I remember watching this a few years ago; it was great!

I even read the book!

[NessiMauzz]

My god, when I read the title I thought you were kidding me. I just don't believe that this movie is from 1925, this is so awsome!

Thank you so much!

I love old movies :D

[darthneji1992]

@NessiMauzz movies have been around since the late 19th century, in short clips. It's from 1925 alright because Lon Chaney is in it.

[xxxXDcpeachycherry]

deze is super saai

[superdavid002]

I mention Chaney in The Celebrity Song.

[missadeline22]

God I love this movie. Can't beat the original. :)

My favorite parts is where the Persian comes down the stairs and he's like ".....uh...yeah, I'll be leaving now." And when the ballet-mime guy is like "BAHH!!" And he pops out of the floor and the managers are like WTF??

[geinman1287]

The finest horror film of the silent era, and Lon Chaney's finest hour. This film made him immortal.

[piou77piou]

lon chaney is a legend the master of horror

[sora590100]

Ah, good ol' history.

[Bladee17]

Je confirme. Ce film date bien de 1925.

Vu sur AlloCiné:

Date de sortie cinéma : 22 septembre 1925

[teraniel11]

Are you sure that this is a 1925 film?

[MissForcibleLives]

yup Universal made and released this film in 1925

[NSAnegrean]

this is the symphony that Schubert never finished :D

[dannysguy]

awsome i 've read this book before.....that time i love d sthe story but now i love the movieeeeeeeeeee.......loveeeee­e it so much....... :)

[mikachankawaii]

hey i think this one its true cauz my teacher said so

[abombinreverse]

seems like people read slower back then...

[missadeline22]

@abombinreverse

The saaaaaaaaaaaanctuuuuaarrrrrryy­yyy songggggggg offffffffff loooooooooooooooverrrrrrrrs...­.......

[Rayla840]

@abombinreverse Surprising since education was probably better back then.

[ckaatt]

@abombinreverse I don't think film editors tried to compact so much information into a movie back then (they didn't have much creditors anyways). Either that or they just needed a way to lengthen the movie....

[powergirl07]

@abombinreverse I think books were harder to produce because they didn't have computers so they were more expensive. People weren't as well off then so they had less books and less practice in reading more poetic language.

(BTW, is it me or was the music around 1:00 also in The Elephant Man?)

[MrsJosephMerrick]

@powergirl07 Er, no...This is Shuberts Unfinished Symphony...:)

[Kurosawa3]

@abombinreverse

They did. We have now been conditioned to read much faster. Good observation.

[xXZechiXx]

i never thought i would love such an old film. also the music is fantastic! :]

[YashaYuki1311]

Ah, I've always wanted to watch this. :]

It made me feel awsome knowing I was named after Phantom of The Opera XD

[satanicWorshiper89]

what are you named..?

[YashaYuki1311]

@satanicWorshiper89 Christine. ^_^ Why'd my comment get thumbed down... O_o

[satanicWorshiper89]

nice....maybe its a common name unless its Christine daae....lol

[YashaYuki1311]

@satanicWorshiper89 You're right with that I'd say, but my mum told me I was, so I feel all awesome XD

[safirasun]

I LOVE THYS VERSION ..LOVE LOVE LOVE :)

[kivalily]

i loved the book,now i loe the film.2004 movie isnt a scratch on this though

[juggalojack13]

Best version ever.

[powergirl07]

Thankyou! I first saw the 2004 movie and loved it, then I read the book and since then I've been looking for a film version that's like the book. I haven't found one that's exactly like it and I doubt that I will, but I have enjoyed every version so far and the closest to the book was the animated one.

I hope that this is closer still and even if it isn't, I shall enjoy it. :)

[Drymachan]

the best adaptation of the best novel of gaston lerroux!!!!

[bubbacake13]

me and my class are watching the new one in music

[oox2000]

J'adore l'histoire du fantôme de l'opéra. Et je trouve que de nombreux films (et comédie musicale) lui font honneur. Ce film-ci en est un exemple parfait.

[tamhan28]

found out about phantom of the opera in third drade when my teeacher played the music in class.. now I'm attached!

[steel098]

i love this film......

[ObiDjaxProductions]

i saw this film in its entirety and it was good, and only bearable because i was so dedicated to actually saying i had saw teh original.

[alucard624]

Thank you very much for posting this. I've managed to convince some friends of mine to watch this version because I told them it was much better than the ALW movie version. Lon Chaney was a genius in this and I still think this is the definitive version of the story to this day. Long live Black and White films, let alone silent films!!!

[hazellwood]

I miss the days when actors and actresses actually ACTED.

[loudyetlovely]

@hazellwood i think today an actor's true talent is over looked, because they do such a lovely job that you don't even realize they are acting. you always know a bad actor because you can tell they are acting. this is exaggerated, because there is no sound. and anyone can exaggerate

[hazellwood]

@loudyetlovely As a stage performer and a silent movie enthusiast, I disagree. Put a current-day screen actor on stage and tell them to let the back row see them, they won't be able to do it right. The principle holds for screen-silent acting.

[loudyetlovely]

@hazellwood i understand your point for stage performances i totally agree, i love theater. I think it just takes a certain talent to do movies, and a certain talent for stage. they are quite different. to each his own though.

[Sage80]

@hazellwood right. because mtv kids can read.

[AshleyAndApril]

it's funny how my great grandmother saw this in theaters when she was like 10

[Chris82bc]

I saw a version of this movie in high school with a really 80's sounding synthesizer soundtrack. Does anyone know how to find the music on that? It was this very same 1925 film, not some remake.

[Ferarex1]

Go handsome Phantom:)

[sacajuwea1]

wohoooo did they create a modern movie of this

[Rightdude123]

yep, 2004's version

[Def16to1]

do y guys know the game worms4

ok if u do when u throw the Holy Hand Greander It give song like an opera or something so if u know it can u please tell me whtat is that songe name please

[vampguylover]

this is so old i got it from the library and

watch it then i realized it was sooooooo old it did not even have speaking i laughed and managed to get through it

and realized how awsome it was luv it =)

[Ritly13]

Awesome man! Good for you! Sadly, most people (especially young ones) don't even wanna watch old movies because it's black and white. Extremely disappointing for younger generations not experiencing good movies due to age.

[AJHcorolla]

i always get this sort of mixed up with swan lake

[princessryan96]

this is indeed one of the best plays and movies i hav ever seen

[TheScorpionUK]

Indeed, The Phantom started out as a novel written by Gaston Leroux. First published in France in 1910 in book form (English translation in 1911), following a serialisation in a French newspaper in 1909. The first installment appeared on 23 September 1909, meaning on 23 September 2009 we will witness the MILESTONE CENTENARY OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!

Follow @fantomedelopera on Twitter for further details!

[totehosentotehosen]

the first piece of music is not from lloyd webber. it is schuberts unfinishes symphony

[poisonpixi2]

how doas this work??? andrew loyd webber wrote the phantom of the opera in the 1980s??? soooooo whats up with this?

[PTOPedro]

just to freak you out more...there was a book before this movie! WHOOOOOOOO!!!! scary! you can do the research....just google!

[nibblesfan]

@PTOPedro book was horrible

[darthneji1992]

@PTOPedro Your awesome! I wanted to verbally bitchslap this person for the iggnorance, but I think you did the job :).

[edenrubyrox]

Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted this for Broadway. He wrote the musical, this is the movie. This movie was based on the book by Gaston Leroux, the musical was based on this movie, and the movie of the musical was based on Broadway's version.

[Dru0417]

andrew wrote the composed music and got the idea from the original work by gaston's book! andrew then turned the story into a love story and manipulated the original book of 1911.

[JackSparrowluvr25]

ALW wrote the musical the Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux in 1910, so technically it was used to scare people and that's all. Then ALW made it a Broadway sensation.

[SailorDirector]

Not necessarily, there's a lot of love and passion in Leroux's novel. Christine was filled with horror with Erik, but she loved him on some level. It's really because of the early movies that people thought it's a horror novel and story, but it really isn't. The ending was so sweet and touching too.

Honestly I feel the ALW musical has less romance between the two. I'd explain why, but I need a lot of characters for that!

[temari105]

it is based on the book and andrew loyd webber did not write the phantom of the opera!!!!!

[poisonpixi2]

damn i just got pwnd

[Karinneke8912]

@poisonpixi2

Andrewy Loyd Webber didn't WRITE the Phantom of the Opera.. he merely reformed it into a musical version... (he did so awesomely.. I must add..)

[pt1gard]

@poisonpixi2 check back into history of movies, much of borrowed and hijacked, not many original ideas since the wheel

[darthneji1992]

@poisonpixi2 ...it was book by Gaston Leroux, this was the first adaptation and webber just made it a full blown love story in the 80s.

[SweetJaneofGoth]

@poisonpixi2 No shit. It only says so on the title screen.

[Gneisenau]

@poisonpixi2 And to be honest, the book kinda sucked.

[J6P6]

ive been searching everywhere for the title of this song at the begining of the movie. does anybody know what it is?

[PTOPedro]

It is called Schubert's 8th symphony. It's one of Schubert's most famous symphonies even though he never finished it...go fig.

[merabaek94]

i can remember the actor name!

christine daae.

roul

erik

carlotta

girey

[tvmicman]

this version is the best, bar none. lon chaney is one of the best monsters in movie history. its supposed to be a horror movie not a love story or musical like recent versions. the only one that comes close is dario argento's 1998 movie.

[tangelagrass]

is this the earliest film of"the phantom of the opera"?

[Sinsemilla4u]

Technically yes it is. But, there is an earlier film believed to have existed, though if it did, it is a lost film. It was called Das Phantom der Oper (1916) and starred a Swedish lead actor and a Norwegian lead actress.

[Empoleon111CP]

The earliest still around. The true earliest film was made in 1916 and the last copy was destroyed in a fire.

[iloveclothes66]

whats the name of the most resent movie of the phantom of opera

[LadyAbigail90]

Phantom of the Opera 2004

[WOLFFDEPPSPONGEBOB]

Wow... beautiful ballet

[Anim3Fann]

waa..never thought tat a movie so long would be on youtube ,

moreover, the phantom of the opera (latest one) is much more popular than the black n white one.

[GasSnake2003]

you gotta hav appreciation for the classics man. look how episodes 1 2 and 3 of star wars stack up against the originals DX

[Anim3Fann]

i like classic .. but im rather choosen among the classics..

and, i dun watch star wars .. (:

this movie, the phantom, freak me out.

he looks like a monster ... the lastest phantom of the opera, the phantom, is much more handsome ^^

LOL !

[lizzardfem87]

i agree, the musical erik is much more handsome...but he's supposed to be so ugly he can't be looked at without someone being afraid. That's a big thing in the book, and the movie version just has really bad burn scars for his "ugliness." I'm pretty sure Leroux would disagree with the musical lol

[maurocanggianelli]

i cant stop thinking about minority report every time i hear this music, what a magnificent song...

[wickedrockstheworld]

lon chaney is my great great uncle!!! thank you so much for posting this

[xxkewldudexx]

is he really? that's *so* kewl!! do u have any family pix?

[incorrigibleirises]

the Unfinished symphony?

...never thought of it that way before

[bigafoota]

it is

[Euforicmoon13]

OooooOOooohhhhhhh.....nice

but i like the freddy novillo version better....

[punkviolingirl]

cool. music is neat. i LOVE the story. the ALW version is better but this follows the book more which makes me happy!

[RentandWicked]

i have never watched a silent film but i love it1

[forestgumpaed]

Probably Lon Chenys finest moment(the man with a thousand faces)for the time it came out ,it was your real 1st horror movie.superbly directed by Rupert Julian.a classic film that as never been matched(other versions).5/5.

[amakusashiro]

I HAVE THIS ON DVD! i just love them all

[dymideluna]

i dont get it

[iluvsnoopy25]

wow-ee..my first silent movie! :D..and its the phantom of the opera! way awesome!

[culinaryprincess96]

wow, how can you download something so historical onto youtube? such a beautiful movie :)

[PTOPedro]

two words...public domain! :)

[CSPGotoPrime]

This was beautiful. I love silent films.

[ed021493]

i ♥ it

[celloer1717]

i love the phantom of the opera!! no matter who directed it

[wlhardy]

One of the best silent films ever! I first caught it on A&E around 20 years ago and taped it. A few days later I was watching it and when the scene came where Christine unmasks the phantom, my 3-year-old daughter had hysterics, so I had to shut it off.

[LuckyDuck1995]

This is 1,000 times better than that Twilight crap! Ahhhh i'm reimersing into heaven....

[hostclub17]

I second that statement..

[clyn678]

I 3rd it 0.o

[brandoncurtis1]

i 4th in to it as well.

[UchihasSuck]

I know!!! XD Twilight is such rubbish, the world needs to ingest more media such as THIS...^^

Erik love. :) I know he's a crazy guy and all, but I love him! *glomps*

[LuckyDuck1995]

HA ur cute........

[UchihasSuck]

0_0 Why thank you! *glomps also* (>^.^)>

[brandoncurtis1]

you both are like the phantom and Christine.

[sasukeguy132]

uchihas.....SUCK!?!?!?!?!

[UchihasSuck]

T_T I srry...*glomps* I couldn't think of a name, and I, well...*Orz*

[ilovemybishies87]

I 4th it! <3

[LuckyDuck1995]

Tht was random......lol

[fantazmfairy]

i read somewere that there was another silent version of POTO released before this one in Germany but it was lost durring the war.has anyone else heard about this?

[yesbullet]

I've heard it, but have yet to find evidence.

[SmyliLolotte]

You're in 1925 ! It's normal !