# Screenshot of Lon Chaney's "Phantom"s unmasking?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screenshot-of-lon-chaneys-phantom-s-unmasking/189478 "2003-07-18T21:49:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screenshot-of-lon-chaneys-phantom-s-unmasking/189478/1 "2003-07-18T21:49:46Z")

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…pardon my posting, but does anyone here happen to know where I could find a “screen capture” of the moment in the 1925 “Phantom of the Opera” movie, where Lon Chaney is unmasked?

:Whew!: What a sentance…

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screenshot-of-lon-chaneys-phantom-s-unmasking/189478/2 "2003-07-18T21:57:08Z")

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There’s a still photo [here](http://www.magicimage.com/monsters.asp?cat=phantom&page=showstill&ext=7&caption=The%20Phantom%20-%20Unmasked!) . Try searching for Mary Philbin rather than Lon Chaney and it’ll reduce results/increase accuracy.

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**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screenshot-of-lon-chaneys-phantom-s-unmasking/189478/3 "2003-07-18T22:33:24Z")

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Those photos show once again what an amazing artist Chaney was. He did his own make-up for that film, and it’s just wonderful. I have got to see that movie.