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Auction History Result 4m0428 OUTSIDE THE LAW camera original 8x10 negative 1920 Lon Chaney lighting cigarette by Freulich! Date Sold 6/11/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Photographic Negative (measures 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm]) (Learn More) Outside the Law, the 1920 Tod Browning silent romantic family relationship crime thriller ("My heart stood still but for Billy's sake I forced myself to go through with it"; "Priscilla Dean supported by Lon Chaney in Tod Browning's stupendous melodrama"; "Universal-Jewel super production"; about the daughter of a reformed crook who had been helping her father, but she reforms as well, but when he father goes back to jail, she falls in with another jewel thief, played by Chaney, but it is not until later that she learns that Chaney has framed her father) starring Priscilla Dean, Lon Chaney Sr. (in a dual role where he plays both a jewel thief named "Black Mike" Sylva, and also a Chinese man!), Wheeler Oakman, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren, Stanley Goethals, Melbourne MacDowell, and Wilton Taylor. Note that Tod Browning had intended to remake this movie in 1930 as a sound movie with Chaney in the starring role, but Chaney died, and Browning remade it with Edward G. Robinson instead! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a negative that was in the camera when the photographer shot the photo (see below for more on this). We have put a scan of the negative that shows the "positive image" (in addition to a scan of the negative image). REMEMBER THAT WHAT YOU RECEIVE WILL BE A PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE, NOT A POSITIVE IMAGE LIKE YOU ARE SEEING. However, we will provide the winning bidder of this auction that positive image scan that is both high quality and not watermarked (on request to the winning bidder, and only the winning bidder). We scanned it, so that bidders could see just how high quality it is. What are camera original negatives? These often (but not always) have retouching on the emulsion side, and negative numbers written in India ink on the front. Depending on the studio some 8x10 negatives may be trimmed or have numbers or information embedded into the sides of the negative. Obviously, camera original negatives are far more rare (and far more desirable) than studio-issued ones, but both are very high quality. Condition: poor to fair. This has India ink numbering at the bottom, and retouching on the back that was done by the photographer. The entire negative has cracked down the right side and separated. It is in the background and the right side of Chaney's clothes. There is a 4" crack in the left of the bottom of the negative, going into Chaney's arm. There is a piece in the left of the bottom border that has separated from the rest of the negative, and there is loss in the bottom left corner. Obviously, these are really significant defects, but all of this can be "repaired" using PhotoShop, and a beautiful positive image can result, but it will take some extra effort, so bear this in mind before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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