That’s because executives at Universal Pictures ordered all 35 mm nitrate prints and negatives of all their silent films, which they considered worthless, melted down for their valuable silver content in 1948. I’ll be introducing a 90th anniversary screening of “The Phantom of the Opera’’ on Sunday at the United Palace with my colleague Michael Riedel, live organ accompaniment by Ben Model and a miniconcert by members of the Broadway “Phantom’’ cast.īut it will be a substantially different version of the timeless silent horror classic than the one New York audiences first saw on Sept.
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