The hunchback of Notre Dame [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Carl Laemmle presents a Universal production ; adaptation by Perley Poor Sheehan ; scenario by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. ; directed by Wallace Worsley.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Publisher:
Publisher not identifed,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (11 pages ; 17 cm.)
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Patsy Ruth Miller. Accompanying booklet contains essay by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Originally produced in 1923. Special features: optional audio commentary by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake, rare footage of Chaney out of makeup on the Cathedral set, a 1915 film: Alas and Alack, in which Chaney plays a hunchback, photo gallery, digital reproduction of the original souvenir program.
Summary:
Lon Chaney as Quasimodo looks as if he had just stepped out from the original illustrations of Victor Hugo's novel. The sets depicting fifteenth-century Paris covered nineteen acres of Universal Pictures' back lot and included the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Filming took six months and the climactic sequence employed 2000 extras, but it's Lon Chaney's performance that makes the character unforgettable. Mastered from a multi-tinted 16mm print struck in 1926 from the original camera negative.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.