Winner of the 2002 "Something For Nothing" Award at BDA/Promax, this video is presented with the generous written permission of Matthew Strong Broadcast Design. CREDITS: Shannon Davis Forsyth, Creative Director; Barry Ainslie & Adam Easdon, Art Directors; Ian Forsyth, Director of Photography; Ben Campbell, Senior Designer; Simon Goodrick, Senior Producer; Shannon Davis Forsyth, Producer, Editor, Director, Script; Barry Ainslie, Lead Designer, Artist, Motion Graphics Animator; Matthew Strong, Assistant Graphic Designer; Pete M / Adam Easdon, Flame Ops; Helen Williams, Studio Production Manager.
The search for "London After Midnight" is on! (Was it ever off?) Leave it up to the creative folks at Harpodeon Film Restoration and Distribution to slap together a good-natured gag clip, until some or all of the actual missing picture is discovered. This video is presented through the written permission and courtesy of Harpodeon's W. Dustin Alligood, with the entire funny story behind it available at: www.harpodeon.com/london_after_midnight/. (Please, remove the spaces in the URL to view the website.)
This was the earliest of the known existing Lon Chaney films (until the 2007 discovery of "Poor Jake's Demise" [1913]) — the pieced-together surviving remnants of a two-reel western shot by the Nestor Motion Picture Company which was later absorbed by Universal. In this picture, Chaney plays the bad guy. He does it so well, in fact, that his performance in the attempted rape scene proved to be too real for audiences at the time. Of course, by today's standards, it is mild and nothing but classic Chaney. Other cast members include Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Dick Rosson and M. J. MacQuarrie.
Presented is the only known surviving footage from the Mayflower Photoplay Corporation production of "The Miracle Man," hailed as "a picture that will never be forgotten," starring Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney, Sr.
After spending the first 18 years of her life being raised and forced to work in the lowest brothel in Zanzibar, Maizie (Mary Nolan) is brought to Dead-Legs' (Lon Chaney, Sr.'s) hideout under the guise that she is to meet her father for the first time. Based on the dark and controversial play "Kongo," the script was banned from motion pictures by the Hays Office. To sidestep the ruling, Director Tod Browning and Co-producer Irving Thalberg changed the title to "South of the Equator" and then to "West of Zanzibar," passing it off as "an original story for the screen by Chester DeVonde and Kilbourn Gordon." Other cast members in this clip include Warner Baxter, Tiny Ward, Kalla Pasha and Curtis Nero.
The vaudeville magic act, betrayal and tragic fall scene that leaves main character Phroso Flint (Lon Chaney, Sr.) paralyzed — with Jacqueline Gadsden, Lionel Barrymore, and directed by Tod Browning.
The opening scene from "The Unholy Three," Lon Chaney, Sr.'s first and only talking picture, and a remake of director Tod Browning's 1925 silent version. Here, as a sideshow conman, Chaney actually performs ventriloquism with a dummy and throws his voice (in high pitch) to a female spectator in the audience.