It might even be listed on eBay as I type: someone in the UK bought a canned reel for 3 pounds and it turned out to be a long lost Charlie Chaplin film that sold for I believe some $470,000.00!
Were you talking to me? If so, it's Zepped. There's a bit of it posted here, actually back in 2010, and I only heard of this very recently. You can also paste the main keywords from my post onto Google and you'll find the news article with the man's photo.
Every time I rummage through my old underwear drawer, I hold out hope that this film will be down there under all my old underwear. But alas, it never is.
Sadly, this film is very likely lost forever. MGM was very meticulous with the accountability of their film prints - they ensured that all of their theatrical prints were returned. It was also a common practice in those days to melt down extra nitrate prints for their silver content. This makes it fairly doubtful that there are any prints out there in private hands or in foreign film vaults. Still, we can all hope. The movie is reportedly not very good, but finally seeing Chaney in this classic makeup on film would certainly be a joy.
London After Midnight was a success with audiences when it was first released. However, it received mixed reviews from critics which rarely has any merit. I also read an article many years ago that critics who reviewed the film shortly before the 1965 MGM vault fire said it was not good, but this was decades around the late 50s to the 1960s. This is more than likely what you were referring. Never say never, this same vault fire also had 1927s Metropolis and a Three Stooges short all which have turned up in the last 10 years. It is rumored that there is a print in existence in a private collection in Argentina per TCM.
Thank you for this upload! I just finished watching the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and this was sitting here waiting for me. Lon Chaney's character always scared me in this movie, when i was a kid, and I never saw anything but photos.
@@spookyartistonyt those old films were made of nitrate and the vaults they were stored in would occasionally burn down. London After Midnight was in one of these fires and was sadly lost in the fire so there isn't any surviving copy as far as we know.
@@fernandomaron87 no, you are wrong, and this is true. The last know copy was destroyed in a vault fire in 1965. Also, this film was from the late 1920s and printed on nitrate which is a highly decomposable and extremely volatile organic compound.
this is supposedly the most sought after horror film of the silent era. Would love to see its entirety. Saw photos clips in the 60's when there was "Monster Magazine" and Famous Monsters of Filmland
Like many lost films, you have to be convinced that somewhere, in some vault in some former Communist country or somewhere in an attic or basement or some trunk in a storage locker, a beautiful copy of the film with Chinese or Russian titles is lurking, and that whoever finds it will hopefully realize that there is something special about it. A few years back someone found some other lost horror film footage and of course 30 years ago, the lost scenes from "Frankenstein" 1931, were discovered as well...
A print of Red Headed Woman was found in the possession of George V of England.. in pristine condition I have a copy of the complete version of Frankenstein. from 1931....the film preservationists cut the scenes back into the movie
The most important found film for me is Nosferatu, which Bram Stoker's widow hunted down almost to non-existance, but luckly a copy was saved by Universal themselves who claimed to the widow it has been destroyed, but secretly kept, in order to study the shots for Dracula (1931). It's like Dracula saved Nosferatu from being destroyed for good by Bram Stoker's widow. That's some incredible stuff.
@@fernandomaron87 The French archives preserved NOSFERATU from the beginning, so "hunted down almost to non-existance" is a gross exaggeration. It wasn't just "one copy" that was saved, because the court order was unenforceable in most European countries.
Lon Chaney's character here is absolutely horrifying. One of the most unnerving faces I ever did see. I also heard Marion Lorne was in this, who plays/played aunt Clara in Bewitched. Remarkable film.
Fine work! There is precious little to be seen from this, and it's a shame. I enjoy the musical choices you made ... thank you for your efforts + for sharing here. Lon Chaney shall not die!!
does Lon Chaney's character remind anyone else of the Hat Box Ghost from The Haunted Mansion? I wonder if the creators of the ride were thinking of him at the time
They used to show this film at the school for the deaf in Santa Fe New Mexico around Halloween time. back in the 50's into the early 60's. Is it possible that in that bone dry climate that a print still exist up the the attic or rafters of that old school?
sure, I know it's a compilation of enhanced chronological movie stills set to music, but I enjoyed your musical selections so much that I watched the video thru twice. This is probably the closest modern audiences will get to seeing this lost film so many thanks for your efforts.
Someone on Reddit posted a picture of a TH-cam comment saying that a school for deaf people had screened this movie on Halloween around the 1950s or 60s, there’s gotta be a surviving copy of the film somewhere in that building. I even read somewhere that the school’s basement was flooded and everything was moved to a storage closet, the school is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I researched the school and it seems like it’s still there and it’s opened!
@@valeriemacias6285 an eBay seller was selling film cans for vintage tapes and it was shipping from the same country, somebody assumed that one of those cans is the movie itself, the items were sold out. However another person emailed the school but they never got a reply, another user managed to grab info from a guy whose mother used to work at that school they said this. This is from the comments “his Mom worked at the school’s museum until the new management took over. She left when they took over. He says that whenever the new management took over they took the old artifacts of the school and stuffed them in a storage closet. The storage closet is in the main building of the school. The main building is called Dillon Hall”
A really far out proposal would be for some film editor,producer and director to film a new London After Midnight and somehow incorporate these stills into it
Someone somewhere who's been carefully guarding a print may be waiting for the copyright to expire. Which happens sometime this year (2022). So...fingers and toes crossed!
Thanks for posting. Always been a Lon Chaney fan. Too bad the movie was destroy in a fire. Hope someday someone is cleaning out an attic somewhere and they find another copy.
Thanks for this; truly a labor of love. I still believe this movie will be found someday - if not in mint condition, then at least as a partial bootleg copy, like "Road to Mandalay" was found a couple of years back. (Does anybody know if a Mandalay restoration is in the works?) Who knows? Maybe a REALLY GOOD copy of this exists, somewhere; after all, if the Mary Pickford-Owen Moore "Their First Misunderstanding" from 1911 can be found in a New Hampshire barn in 2009, anything's possible!
Its film like this that made me wanna watch it. But all I have to say is "Damn!". Chaney make up sure is amazing to watch in action. I hope that this film get discover one day.
Even if these are production or publicity stills, it’s great these exist/existed to make this montage. I’ve heard varying opinions about how good the original movie was, but I would still love to see it if a good print ever appears.
Das Phantom der Oper was a 1916 silent film. The film, also known as Das Gespenst im Opernhaus, is notable for being the first film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. The film is now believed to be a lost film. No copies, photographs or even a poster of the film remain. All that is known is that it was made in Germany in autumn 1915, directed by Ernst Matray, starring Nils Chrisander as the Phantom and Aud Egede Nissen as Christine, and Raul played by director Ernst Matray
The true phantom of the 1916 version is not knowing anything about it. Also, I'm curious as to what the first phantom would've looked like. Lon Chaneys Masque of the red death sequence easily made him my favorite of all the phantom actors.
It seems impossible that it's completely gone. Someone, somewhere has it in a can in their attic and just doesn't know. Or it's mislabeled as someone's wedding film.
An estimated 75% of all silent films are lost so why the hell do you think it is impossible? Our film storage capabilities weren't exactly great back then, plus the type of film used was much more prone to damage. It is more likely that it is lost forever then it is just hanging around somewhere mislabeled. In actuality some of the most popular silent films of the era are lost, it is not like London after midnight is some anomaly.
I've always had been curious about who this character was. I never had a chance to buy the monster magazine featuring this Lon Chaney character on the cover. I only got a clue when I watched "The Man With 1000 Faces" that it was Lon Chaney.
none of these photos are 'frames' from the film. Whether they're called stills, promotionals, they are all one in the same. Stills show up on venues like ebay all the time. Promotionals that may contain stills also show up from time to time like in old [archived] newspapers, heralds, magazines or press kits.
There was a 1950s or early 60s history of movies show that actually shown some clips of London after Midnight. I remember because it showed Lon Chaney in several films and the little clip was freaky .
Though it sucks that we probably won't have a copy, I'm so glad that there are at least plenty of still shots & the script. Imagine if those were gone too
.....some big time collector has it in their collection and doesn't know it--mislabeled or buried among some bulk that was never sorted; it will eventually turn up !
don't get me wrong i love all the classic horror films but honestly i would have rathered something like Lugosi's dracula to have been burned if given the ultimatum. there's already so much content out there in terms of vampires and dracula especially from the silent era. but for something like london after midnight to be permanently lost is really unfortunate to say the least. Lon Chaney was amazing just watching this gives me chills
Not joking, I saw a copy of this film entirely. Family member got it. I hope someone restores and remastered it. It traumatized me. It's a brooding film.
Literally get in touch with your family member, do you realise how important the discovery of this film would be around the world!? We need to find this film!
I read this many years ago: there is a compete surviving 9.5 mm print with French subtitles that is owned by a private party. Anyone else know about this? 🎞🤔
Kevin Brownlow told me that the Cuban Film archive is locked and unattended - it hasn't been searched or catalogued - bearing in mind that it was a playground for the rich and famous before the revolution - maybe a good place to search for a copy of the film???????
The surviving artifacts related to this film have been scrutinized so minutely over the decades that it has become very apparent that the only great thing about this otherwise so-so film is the spellbinding production stills, which are gothic masterpieces. If the film were to turn up and was screened, a lot of silent film buffs would probably feel the need to hide their disappointment.
I.m sorry, it seems to me that this nothing more than a condensation of the 2002 TCM "reconstruction" of this lost film made from a multitude of on-set promotional photos. The video-generated titles are the same as the TCM version. Why you felt you had to add video-effect scratches will remain a mystery to me. There is nothing here that people could not have already seen in the TCM version available on the 2-DVD set called LON CHANEY COLLECTION.
TCM, Turner Classic Movie Channel, had done this very ame thing, if not this is the same. Initially, Robert Osborne of TCM had claimed in ads for the upcoming Halloween night lineup of movies, the lost folm of London After Midnight was to be aired. When we, I and friends of mine, had discovered this was a photo film and not THE film, we were upset. The same people who reconstructed the silent film Greed to it's full length from its edited version, were the same ones who photo reconstructed this movie. It's on a multi-disc set of Chaney films. Rumors had flown on the internet since 2000 about the film being found. Last true know report was in the 1970s or 1980s somewhere that an old movie theater that had be burnt to the ground by a fire. The last know print of this film was in there. Also, Turners had no dirt flashes to make photos look like old film. I will say that I have seen and know this film from photos and the TCM run. Every so often a new photo seems to appear. There were mixed reviews of those who originally saw it in the theater. Some loved it and some hated it. One guy even claimed the movie drove him so insane that he killed his girlfriend. The judge didn't buy into his isanity plea and tossed him in jail. The documentary UNIVERSAL HORROR, which may be on TH-cam, is on the Universal Monsters set. It talks about this and many other great films. The guy claiming insanity is referenced there. What would have Dracula and Frankenstein looked like if Chaney played them? Before his death, Universal guaranteed him those rwo rolls as part of his contract negotiation. He diedfrom cancer right after making his only sound film, a remake of The Unholy 3. It's about a traveling group of con-artists. Now they'd just use the internet to scam.
heyyy, Youuu muggles! I´ve heard and read in many puplications (many years before) that someone has reconstructed this film picture by picture. With old shots from frames. - And that´s why i came here. Maybe THIS IS THE ONE !?!
@@Bryan-vb7dl Maybe that guy is waiting to get a good dollar figure before he gives it away. I’m sure it would be worth a lot of money -especially to Universal!
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if we could time travel back in time we could save this movie in just a matter of time we could save these films ya know in a matter of time we just have to wait
So even the Rick Schmidlin reconstruction is just stills and a soundtrack. I've been left with the impression that at some point in the distance past a copy of the film was chopped up for still frames and the rest discarded. Or is there some other more likely scenario?
Cool I loved it the pictures from this movie look awesome I love them hopefully one day they will find the movie looks really good. Although there is a good chance it is lost forever. I did hear something about them maybe finding some sort of negative recently but not sure if that is just rumors. Tod browning remade London after midnight round about 1935 as Mark of the vampire that is a really awesome movie I highly recommend that one to. Also some of the music here is really good what is the music that starts at 14 minutes it goes really well with the movie.
There seems to be a lot more Lon Chaney vampire (1 character) in these 15 min than there is Bela Lugosi (as both Count Mora AND the actor character, end frame) in Mark of the Vampire! MOTV is good but could have been so much better: there's way too many soporific monologues by Lionel Barrymore, whom I usually enjoy, but I found his MOTV role way too overpowering. A little goes a long way. He's good when he talks about the wolf bane, but we got it the first time. No need to go on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. One pays to see a film called "Mark of the Vampire" to see the vampire(s)... aka Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland!
They HAD to use Barrymore He was an MGM regular and an AA winner He was one of their prestige stars... If you want to blame someone-blame lugosi's agent who should have bargained for better terms for his client : higher pay and more screen time
That's not original, those are the video-generated credits made for the 2002 TCM recreation of the film from surviving stills. They took a production shot and used it as a background for the newly created credits.
Well, they found a print of the silent film adaptation of Frankenstein after many decades of being lost, so there's always hope.
It's out there somewhere, hope someone finds a print before it's dust.
It might even be listed on eBay as I type: someone in the UK bought a canned reel for 3 pounds and it turned out to be a long lost Charlie Chaplin film that sold for I believe some $470,000.00!
Do you know the title of that film?
Were you talking to me? If so, it's Zepped. There's a bit of it posted here, actually back in 2010, and I only heard of this very recently. You can also paste the main keywords from my post onto Google and you'll find the news article with the man's photo.
Im sure it will surface someday. Look what happened with that Chaplin film and of course Metropolis. There is always hope
Every time I rummage through my old underwear drawer, I hold out hope that this film will be down there under all my old underwear. But alas, it never is.
Lol
It’s been 2 years… Any luck? 🤔🦇
I think if this film ever resurfaces, then audiences expecting this to be a straight vampire horror film will be majorly disappointed.
An animation adaptation of this would be a perfect task for artist Mike Mignola to tackle. He’d nail it!!!
Sadly, this film is very likely lost forever. MGM was very meticulous with the accountability of their film prints - they ensured that all of their theatrical prints were returned. It was also a common practice in those days to melt down extra nitrate prints for their silver content. This makes it fairly doubtful that there are any prints out there in private hands or in foreign film vaults. Still, we can all hope. The movie is reportedly not very good, but finally seeing Chaney in this classic makeup on film would certainly be a joy.
London After Midnight was a success with audiences when it was first released. However, it received mixed reviews from critics which rarely has any merit. I also read an article many years ago that critics who reviewed the film shortly before the 1965 MGM vault fire said it was not good, but this was decades around the late 50s to the 1960s. This is more than likely what you were referring. Never say never, this same vault fire also had 1927s Metropolis and a Three Stooges short all which have turned up in the last 10 years. It is rumored that there is a print in existence in a private collection in Argentina per TCM.
@@traingirl09 they found the Pill Pounder recently, a short film that was one of Clara Bow's earliest films. So who knows?
Thank you for this upload! I just finished watching the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and this was sitting here waiting for me. Lon Chaney's character always scared me in this movie, when i was a kid, and I never saw anything but photos.
The fact that the film is lost makes me want to cry
It should be on Netflix?
@@spookyartistonyt those old films were made of nitrate and the vaults they were stored in would occasionally burn down. London After Midnight was in one of these fires and was sadly lost in the fire so there isn't any surviving copy as far as we know.
@@bigmeatyshart There were prints avaliable during the 1950's and 60's, so that's not true
@@bigmeatyshart they also didn't have temperature controled vaults to store thr reels in....so natural heat destroyed...
@@fernandomaron87 no, you are wrong, and this is true. The last know copy was destroyed in a vault fire in 1965. Also, this film was from the late 1920s and printed on nitrate which is a highly decomposable and extremely volatile organic compound.
A Gothic Horror masterpiece frozen in time!
All those moments were lost like tears in the rain...
Filipe Matias beautifuly put
Yeah okay thanks Roy Batty
There has been rumors that someone in Spain has actually found a copy. It's propably a false, but I really, really wish that it turns out to be true.
RageJoona ; you're right.
Same
too
It’s true but owner won’t give it up
My fiancée says he has seen it in school.
this is supposedly the most sought after horror film of the silent era. Would love to see its entirety. Saw photos clips in the 60's when there was "Monster Magazine" and Famous Monsters of Filmland
Same here.
If not, the most sought after Silent Film ever.
At least they saved Lon Chaney’s home movies; part of them, showing Chaney in 1928, also shows his son in the background.
Like many lost films, you have to be convinced that somewhere, in some vault in some former Communist country or somewhere in an attic or basement or some trunk in a storage locker, a beautiful copy of the film with Chinese or Russian titles is lurking, and that whoever finds it will hopefully realize that there is something special about it. A few years back someone found some other lost horror film footage and of course 30 years ago, the lost scenes from "Frankenstein" 1931, were discovered as well...
A print of Red Headed Woman was found in the possession of George V of England.. in pristine condition
I have a copy of the complete version of Frankenstein. from 1931....the film preservationists cut the scenes back into the movie
The most important found film for me is Nosferatu, which Bram Stoker's widow hunted down almost to non-existance, but luckly a copy was saved by Universal themselves who claimed to the widow it has been destroyed, but secretly kept, in order to study the shots for Dracula (1931). It's like Dracula saved Nosferatu from being destroyed for good by Bram Stoker's widow. That's some incredible stuff.
@@fernandomaron87 The French archives preserved NOSFERATU from the beginning, so "hunted down almost to non-existance" is a gross exaggeration. It wasn't just "one copy" that was saved, because the court order was unenforceable in most European countries.
Lon Chaney's character here is absolutely horrifying. One of the most unnerving faces I ever did see. I also heard Marion Lorne was in this, who plays/played aunt Clara in Bewitched. Remarkable film.
Fine work! There is precious little to be seen from this, and it's a shame. I enjoy the musical choices you made ... thank you for your efforts + for sharing here. Lon Chaney shall not die!!
For sure!
The stills of this movie terrified me as a young kid in the magazine FAMOUS MONSTERS. There must be a copy of this movie somewhere. I hope so
I really wish I could watch this movie. Looks so good. I do appreciate these photos exsist.
I'm here after watching Whitechapel.
That was a great ep.
Same
Same
Same 👍
Me as well
This is the biggest collection of still pictures I've ever seen for this movie.
At least this gives us some kind of idea of
what Chaney might have looked like if he
had lived and starred in "Dracula".
does Lon Chaney's character remind anyone else of the Hat Box Ghost from The Haunted Mansion? I wonder if the creators of the ride were thinking of him at the time
omg Yea! that's what i thought when i first saw him
I'm glad someone else noticed!!!
And ESPECIALLY The Babadook!
They used to show this film at the school for the deaf in Santa Fe New Mexico around Halloween time. back in the 50's into the early 60's. Is it possible that in that bone dry climate that a print still exist up the the attic or rafters of that old school?
do you know the name?
Google knows all. Large Pueblo style, possibly newer building.
www.nmsd.k12.nm.us/
Did anyone search there for it?
the school for the death? heh heh
How do you know this?
Fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to put this together
I recently bought a scan of the frame at 07:03. I believe the scan is from the 50s or 60s. I wish there was a full copy of the film somewhere.
sure, I know it's a compilation of enhanced chronological movie stills set to music, but I enjoyed your musical selections so much that I watched the video thru twice. This is probably the closest modern audiences will get to seeing this lost film so many thanks for your efforts.
Someone on Reddit posted a picture of a TH-cam comment saying that a school for deaf people had screened this movie on Halloween around the 1950s or 60s, there’s gotta be a surviving copy of the film somewhere in that building. I even read somewhere that the school’s basement was flooded and everything was moved to a storage closet, the school is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I researched the school and it seems like it’s still there and it’s opened!
Any update on this?
@@valeriemacias6285 an eBay seller was selling film cans for vintage tapes and it was shipping from the same country, somebody assumed that one of those cans is the movie itself, the items were sold out. However another person emailed the school but they never got a reply, another user managed to grab info from a guy whose mother used to work at that school they said this. This is from the comments “his Mom worked at the school’s museum until the new management took over. She left when they took over. He says that whenever the new management took over they took the old artifacts of the school and stuffed them in a storage closet. The storage closet is in the main building of the school. The main building is called Dillon Hall”
@@immunecookie0179 It’s likely they actually do have a surviving print of the film, we just need more people to contact the school.
A really far out proposal would be for some film editor,producer and director to film a new London After Midnight and somehow incorporate these stills into it
My theory is that a private film collector in Europe has London After Midnight.
It’s been sorta confirmed it’s in a collection in Spain
Someone somewhere who's been carefully guarding a print may be waiting for the copyright to expire. Which happens sometime this year (2022). So...fingers and toes crossed!
@@Bryan-vb7dl we can only hope it's not a fake
Thanks for posting. Always been a Lon Chaney fan. Too bad the movie was destroy in a fire. Hope someday someone is cleaning out an attic somewhere and they find another copy.
Hopefully this film will be found one day, who knows it's probably in some rich old guy's film reel collection lol
After he dies, his grandson will sell it at a garage sale for $10.
A core inspiration for Gene Simmons of Kiss
why would anyone dislike this
Some wonderful images here. Thank you for putting these together.xx
Thanks for this; truly a labor of love. I still believe this movie will be found someday - if not in mint condition, then at least as a partial bootleg copy, like "Road to Mandalay" was found a couple of years back. (Does anybody know if a Mandalay restoration is in the works?) Who knows? Maybe a REALLY GOOD copy of this exists, somewhere; after all, if the Mary Pickford-Owen Moore "Their First Misunderstanding" from 1911 can be found in a New Hampshire barn in 2009, anything's possible!
Its film like this that made me wanna watch it. But all I have to say is "Damn!". Chaney make up sure is amazing to watch in action. I hope that this film get discover one day.
Even if these are production or publicity stills, it’s great these exist/existed to make this montage. I’ve heard varying opinions about how good the original movie was, but I would still love to see it if a good print ever appears.
The image at the stairs in 1:53 is such a perfect shot
I wish they would make a modern day version of this film. I never saw it, & also modern day versions of ALL silent films...
They'd only overdo it and screw it up with Computer Effects!
Das Phantom der Oper was a 1916 silent film. The film, also known as Das Gespenst im Opernhaus, is notable for being the first film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
The film is now believed to be a lost film. No copies, photographs or even a poster of the film remain. All that is known is that it was made in Germany in autumn 1915, directed by Ernst Matray, starring Nils Chrisander as the Phantom and Aud Egede Nissen as Christine, and Raul played by director Ernst Matray
Not even photo Stills exist either, that film really sparks my curiosity
The true phantom of the 1916 version is not knowing anything about it.
Also, I'm curious as to what the first phantom would've looked like. Lon Chaneys Masque of the red death sequence easily made him my favorite of all the phantom actors.
It seems impossible that it's completely gone. Someone, somewhere has it in a can in their attic and just doesn't know. Or it's mislabeled as someone's wedding film.
An estimated 75% of all silent films are lost so why the hell do you think it is impossible? Our film storage capabilities weren't exactly great back then, plus the type of film used was much more prone to damage. It is more likely that it is lost forever then it is just hanging around somewhere mislabeled. In actuality some of the most popular silent films of the era are lost, it is not like London after midnight is some anomaly.
@@JellyBabie1984 where did your anger come from, friend? I'm just hoping.
There is a replica of Lon Chaney's makeup case on sale on eBay.
I've always had been curious about who this character was. I never had a chance to buy the monster magazine featuring this Lon Chaney character on the cover.
I only got a clue when I watched "The Man With 1000 Faces" that it was Lon Chaney.
It feels just like Prokofiev "Dance of the knights" from Romeo n' Juliet.
Not to be pedantic, but these are promotional photos - not film frames.
Also, promotional photos was in itself often stills from the movie. This is a mix of film frames and staged promotional photos.
PBS put this together back in the late 90's I believe. that's where I first saw this or the extended version .... Can't recall.
none of these photos are 'frames' from the film. Whether they're called stills, promotionals, they are all one in the same. Stills show up on venues like ebay all the time. Promotionals that may contain stills also show up from time to time like in old [archived] newspapers, heralds, magazines or press kits.
Thanks, Captain Obvious.
You're not being pedantic. Presumptuous, condescending & plain wrong, but not pedantic.
This movie is a masterpiece👍🏼
There was a 1950s or early 60s history of movies show that actually shown some clips of London after Midnight. I remember because it showed Lon Chaney in several films and the little clip was freaky .
Though it sucks that we probably won't have a copy, I'm so glad that there are at least plenty of still shots & the script. Imagine if those were gone too
.....some big time collector has it in their collection and doesn't know it--mislabeled or buried among some bulk that was never sorted; it will eventually turn up !
don't get me wrong i love all the classic horror films but honestly i would have rathered something like Lugosi's dracula to have been burned if given the ultimatum. there's already so much content out there in terms of vampires and dracula especially from the silent era. but for something like london after midnight to be permanently lost is really unfortunate to say the least. Lon Chaney was amazing just watching this gives me chills
Not joking, I saw a copy of this film entirely. Family member got it. I hope someone restores and remastered it. It traumatized me. It's a brooding film.
Get in contact with your family member then. That’d be really cool
Literally get in touch with your family member, do you realise how important the discovery of this film would be around the world!? We need to find this film!
You're lying.
If you somehow aren't lying the world's gotta see
Yeah right!
I read this many years ago: there is a compete surviving 9.5 mm print with French subtitles that is owned by a private party. Anyone else know about this? 🎞🤔
It could've been the one that was burned in the archives but I could be wrong
Kevin Brownlow told me that the Cuban Film archive is locked and unattended - it hasn't been searched or catalogued - bearing in mind that it was a playground for the rich and famous before the revolution - maybe a good place to search for a copy of the film???????
The surviving artifacts related to this film have been scrutinized so minutely over the decades that it has become very apparent that the only great thing about this otherwise so-so film is the spellbinding production stills, which are gothic masterpieces. If the film were to turn up and was screened, a lot of silent film buffs would probably feel the need to hide their disappointment.
Ive read the big things that people latch onto with this film make up only a small portion of it and the rest is pretty sub par.
I would like to know what the name of the piece of music they're playing here is
Hums huma - from Russia with love
I.m sorry, it seems to me that this nothing more than a condensation of the 2002 TCM "reconstruction" of this lost film made from a multitude of on-set promotional photos. The video-generated titles are the same as the TCM version. Why you felt you had to add video-effect scratches will remain a mystery to me. There is nothing here that people could not have already seen in the TCM version available on the 2-DVD set called LON CHANEY COLLECTION.
You are correct. This video is a rip-off.
You're full of sh!t, these are clearly old, faded images. Not the large format, high quality production stills TCM used.
@@ThreadBomb these are a mix of stills from the movie and promotional pictures for the movie. they are original
Crybaby
Ahhhh: the magic of black and white celluloid film!
These are still frames printed from the surviving reel negatives!
As I love horror movies , this is great and Lon Chaney looks awesome . He reminds me of Ozzy Osbourne on Diary Of A Madman album cover!!!
100woodywu : I think it's the other way around!
i thought the same thing 😊
Outstanding
Very thankful for your efforts
Inspirational
Awe struck
Thanks for sharing this.
Wonder how much money was gotten for film negative silver.What a shame.This one was lost in a fire.Imagine the worth of it today.
Lon Chaney's character is really inspiring me to draw stuff and it's 5 am lol
TCM, Turner Classic Movie Channel, had done this very ame thing, if not this is the same. Initially, Robert Osborne of TCM had claimed in ads for the upcoming Halloween night lineup of movies, the lost folm of London After Midnight was to be aired. When we, I and friends of mine, had discovered this was a photo film and not THE film, we were upset. The same people who reconstructed the silent film Greed to it's full length from its edited version, were the same ones who photo reconstructed this movie. It's on a multi-disc set of Chaney films. Rumors had flown on the internet since 2000 about the film being found. Last true know report was in the 1970s or 1980s somewhere that an old movie theater that had be burnt to the ground by a fire. The last know print of this film was in there. Also, Turners had no dirt flashes to make photos look like old film. I will say that I have seen and know this film from photos and the TCM run. Every so often a new photo seems to appear. There were mixed reviews of those who originally saw it in the theater. Some loved it and some hated it. One guy even claimed the movie drove him so insane that he killed his girlfriend. The judge didn't buy into his isanity plea and tossed him in jail. The documentary UNIVERSAL HORROR, which may be on TH-cam, is on the Universal Monsters set. It talks about this and many other great films. The guy claiming insanity is referenced there. What would have Dracula and Frankenstein looked like if Chaney played them? Before his death, Universal guaranteed him those rwo rolls as part of his contract negotiation. He diedfrom cancer right after making his only sound film, a remake of The Unholy 3. It's about a traveling group of con-artists. Now they'd just use the internet to scam.
Started looking for this movie after watching whitechapel
It looks so good ! Such a shame it's lost
heyyy, Youuu muggles! I´ve heard and read in many puplications (many years before) that someone has reconstructed this film picture by picture. With old shots from frames. - And that´s why i came here. Maybe THIS IS THE ONE !?!
Thanks for putting this together!
Silly question, but what's the music from? I only recognized Toccata and Fugue in D minor (11:07
)
There are rumblings and chattering about a print being discovered in Spain; there’s a website that actually talks about this.
One of the producers of agents of shield knows a guy in Spain who has a copy. But he hasn’t given it away
@@Bryan-vb7dl Maybe that guy is waiting to get a good dollar figure before he gives it away. I’m sure it would be worth a lot of money -especially to Universal!
@@ChicagoPianistRichardSladek there are rumours that he has been offered millions but he won’t budge
@@Bryan-vb7dl Well that’s lousy! It’s not doing anybody good with him sitting on it!
Marceline Day was such a talent.
his great grandson is working on a reissue with himself as lead,aided by his great grandfather's notes
Can the OP put the tracklist up? These tunes are ace.
1-From Russia with Love-Huma
2-Iron horse-Kevin Macleod
3-Classical Christmas Favorites27-Smith Productions & Kevin MacLeod
4-Toccata and Fugue in D Minor-Bach
5-The Master-Ruby Terry
6-Impending Doom-Kevin Macleod
@@ianbeale5980 absolute king 👑 thank you!
@@laurasarah2663 no problem, have a good one
Hard to believe with all the prints made world wide not one exists.
Hope someone finds the full version of the movie
A great part (perhaps the greatest) of Loney's production is lost. This film is only one of the many works wich shared the same destiny.
Vincent D'onofrio used Lon Chaney as inspiration for the bathroom scene in Full Metal Jacket
Hope they find this movie soon since it should be in the public domain by 2023
Brilliant. Is the music still under Copyright after all these years?
With my luck, this movie will be found the day after I die.
I had no idea this many shots existed, I expected to see just promotional pictures.
I wonder it there’s a surviving script of this film somewhere.
Gloria Flores I'm pretty sure there is. Cause I think someone found the script and made a reconstruction of what the film would have looked like
Really cool
beautiful organ
With the movie missing where did this many photos come from?
Interview with a vampire dancing vampire in France had a thowback look to Lon Chaney. Also lord sutch took his look...1964 jack the ripper performance
if we could time travel back in time we could save this movie in just a matter of time we could save these films ya know in a matter of time we just have to wait
Ojalá hagan una versión actual de esta película, nosferatu o Svengali 🥰
What is the opening music called?
MadManMJ01 idk
From Russia With Love by Huma
Shazam shall tell the truth
somebody can tell me the name of second song?? please!!!!
I mean criterion were able to restore the panther panchali print that was burned in a fire, so it’s possible.
Can someone tell me where the first piece of music is from? Thanks.
Huma-Huma, from Russia with love i believe :)
So even the Rick Schmidlin reconstruction is just stills and a soundtrack. I've been left with the impression that at some point in the distance past a copy of the film was chopped up for still frames and the rest discarded. Or is there some other more likely scenario?
Cool I loved it the pictures from this movie look awesome I love them hopefully one day they will find the movie looks really good. Although there is a good chance it is lost forever. I did hear something about them maybe finding some sort of negative recently but not sure if that is just rumors. Tod browning remade London after midnight round about 1935 as Mark of the vampire that is a really awesome movie I highly recommend that one to. Also some of the music here is really good what is the music that starts at 14 minutes it goes really well with the movie.
There seems to be a lot more Lon Chaney vampire (1 character) in these 15 min than there is Bela Lugosi (as both Count Mora AND the actor character, end frame) in Mark of the Vampire! MOTV is good but could have been so much better: there's way too many soporific monologues by Lionel Barrymore, whom I usually enjoy, but I found his MOTV role way too overpowering. A little goes a long way. He's good when he talks about the wolf bane, but we got it the first time. No need to go on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. One pays to see a film called "Mark of the Vampire" to see the vampire(s)... aka Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland!
They HAD to use Barrymore He was an MGM regular and an AA winner He was one of their prestige stars... If you want to blame someone-blame lugosi's agent who should have bargained for better terms for his client : higher pay and more screen time
the picture at 16:02 confuses me. Is there a few of these vampire guys running around? Neither one of them looks like lon chaney.
My grandfather was born in 1927 but in 2019 he died in of a age 92 so the actor had a son who was lon chany Jr was the wolf man
Truly amazing
How did you aquire this footage for restoration?
Who has it its waiting for 2027 when Mgm loses the rights for the movie
This could make sense🤔
@BULL Public domain laws
the only part that's film,not stills is the opening credits.
That's not original, those are the video-generated credits made for the 2002 TCM recreation of the film from surviving stills. They took a production shot and used it as a background for the newly created credits.
What about the multi-award winning audio movie remake with Art Malik in Dolby Atmos? Have you heard that? 100% reviewed fresh too!
Wasn't this remade, sort of, in 1935 with Lugosi in "Mark of the Vampire"?
just curious. Did Svengoolie get the inspiration for his look from this movie?