Studio press releases stressed that the art director and set designer were working from “architectural plans of the Paris Opera House” and rare volumes of illustrations of opera productions obtained from the University of Berlin in Germany, in order to build an ornate replica, which it called “the first steel and concrete picture set in history.” The article announced that the film was slated to be Universal’s “master production of the year 1925.” The studio was already building the opera house’s “catacombs and caves” at the Universal City, CA, lot, “on what is said to be the largest set of scenes in the industry,” according to the Moving Picture World.
Universal Pictures sent wardrobe “expert” Charles Le Clerc to France and Germany to “search out and buy up” costumes that had been used in Charles Gounod’s opera, Faust, in the 1890s, in order to ensure authenticity “to the last detail” in the upcoming The Phantom of the Opera, the Moving Picture World reported.
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