:35:02
where Aunt Madeline encouraged
Christine to keep company
:35:06
with a nice policeman like Raoul.
:35:09
And then she would rail against Anatole,
that worthless musician.
:35:12
"Music's poison!" Madeline would yell.
"It destroys people."
:35:16
"Give it up before it destroys you."
:35:18
This is because, again, Madeline
is the aunt who has raised her
:35:22
after salvaging the baby
from her dead sister,
:35:25
after that ridiculous Claudin
had left them all to starve.
:35:28
And this after Madeline's father offered
him a cushy job in the provincial mill.
:35:34
Revisions continued up to
the first day of shooting on January 21,
:35:37
and through shooting-with
more blue pages dated February 4.
:35:41
With 149 pages, the shooting script would
have yielded a two-and-a-half-hour movie.
:35:47
Pages and pages of the Claudin/Christine
family plot, thankfully, were deleted.
:35:53
Shooting in Technicolor, Universal
signed a contract with Hal Mohr.
:35:57
Phantom would be his first picture
for them under this contract.
:36:01
Lubin said that "Mohr was one
of the great cameramen of our time."
:36:04
"He did many pictures for me,
and all the directors wanted him."
:36:07
Mohr's credits include The Jazz Singer,
:36:10
Outward Bound, The Lost Moment,
:36:13
Destry Rides Again,
Captain Blood, The Wild One.
:36:17
He won an Academy Award
for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
:36:20
He shot King of Jazz, the Universal
Technicolor musical, in 1930,
:36:24
and one of their early talkie horror films,
The Cat Creeps, the same year.
:36:28
He had shot The Last Warning for director
PáI Fejös on the Phantom stage in 1929.
:36:34
He'd actually photographed
Lon Chaney in The Monster in 1925.
:36:38
For Fejös's picture Broadway in 1929
:36:41
he had helped develop
an incredible camera crane
:36:44
that could turn 360 degrees,
boom up, boom down -
:36:48
the most remarkable piece of equipment
ever seen of its type.
:36:51
Technicolor supplied their own
cameraman, W Howard Greene,
:36:55
nicknamed "Duke".
:36:57
He was required by Technicolor's
contract to work with Mohr.