shot in  synchronous sound and the rest had a music/sound track added or was  dubbed over. The Kino edition (and all except for a few) are a  silent version of the 1929 cut, a common practice at the time for  theaters that did not have sound systems installed. In the sound  edition, Lon Chaney (qv) was not available, and contractually,  Universal was not allowed to have mouth synchronization of the  Phantom. However, they wrote third