LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT

The last known copy of London After Midnight, the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film, was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967. Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy, but without success. Different &lsquo,reconstructions&rsquo, of the film&mdash,one in book format, the other as a motion picture&mdash,have continued to generate interest in recent years, both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos, arranged in sequence according to the film&rsquo,s surviving cutting continuity (with the motion picture camera&rsquo,s panning and zooming across them). ,Thomas Mann, who discovered the long-lost 1928 Boy&rsquo,s Cinema literary version of the film (published by BearManor Media), now offers a new and comparably important discovery