Unmasking the Lost 1916 Phantom of the Opera

The lost film, Das Phantom der Oper (1916), was the first film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera; the popular gothic horror story by Gaston Leroux originally published in 1908. The vast majority of people do not know that Das Phantom der Oper was the very first film adaptation of the original source material or that it even existed. This is because the film and any material related to the production and promotion of it have been lost. There is nearly no evidence of the film's whereabouts or its contents. With so little known about the film, how can you prove it even exists? How do we know it was even completed and released? Was it ever watched? And, most importantly, what happened to it and why is its disappearance so mysterious? Through online on the topics of Gaston Leroux, the many adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera, the history of WWI, and the political relations and restrictions of Germany and Austria-Hungary, we may be able to unravel this 100-year-old mystery... Other iterations of the Phantom of the Opera include the 1925 silent film starring Lon Chaney and the 1986 Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. _ Music: apathetic by Prod. Riddiman: https://bit.ly/3APn1NF ghost by Prod. Riddiman: https://bit.ly/3Rh9K7z one by Prod. Riddiman: https://bit.ly/2xEs6Z9 _ Sources: https://pastebin.com/Yf8Z3v7L References page with Chicago-style citations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r4bA5t... _ Main channel:    / tinyclur   _ Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:19 Background 03:18 The Film 06:55 New Leads 08:45 Answers? 14:25 Conclusion lost media, found media, phantom of the opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber, gaston leroux, mini documentary, r/lostmedia, lost media reddit, r/unresolvedmysteries, unsolved mysteries, non-murder mysteries, historical mysteries, lost artifact, lost film, WWII lost media, Greenbaum films, nils olaf chrisander, ernst matray, aud egede-nissen, great schroder, jules greenbau, mutz greenbaum, class horror cinema, black and white film, lost black and white film, early lost media, earliest lost films, lost media pre WWII, historical lost media, media analysis, historical analysis, film noir history, lost noir films, noir films secrets, gothic horror, gothic horror cinema, gothic horror films, lost gothic horror media, lost gothic horror films.