Follow Up…Last Look At Universal Stage 28, The “Phantom Studio”
Follow Up…Last Look At Universal Stage 28, The “Phantom Studio”
Only a month ago, the sound stage where ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ was shot, was torn down. That was Universal Studio’s Stage 28. In this post, I am including two videos that give us a last look at the original 1925 set before it was carefully removed and packed away for display at a later date.
The embedded video is :49 seconds and was taken by a Universal employee on the sly. The second video is at this link and is a longer look with 2 minutes of photos of the set and some interesting history from the presenter who is the niece of the man who ran Universal and built Stage 28…Carl Laemmle.
In 1924 Universal’s president, Carl Laemmle, commissioned the construction of a set of the Paris Opera House for the movie. Because it would have to support hundreds of extras, the set became the first to be created with steel girders set in concrete. For this reason it was not dismantled until this year. Stage 28 still contained portions of the opera house set and was the world’s oldest surviving structure built specifically for a movie. The studio was used in hundreds of movies and TV series and I’ll give you the incredible list of what famous movies were shot here and many more photos in today’s next post. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDzG2G3ExM
As an employee, and thanks to a kind security guard, I was able to film this footage of the oldest sound stage in the world. Stage 28 at Universal Studios, H…
[…] seeing Phantom all the way through? First off, the film looks gorgeous. It was shot on the sadly erstwhile Stage 28, where the 1925 Phantom was also filmed, only now we get to see the set in color, so how […]
I’ve heard about this stage, but I’d never been to Universal to see it in person. At least they carefully dismantled the set and stored it. Perhaps we may see it again somewhere . . .
I recall seeing this set when I worked at Universal on several sitcoms. There was a plaque by the door honoring this set & stage.