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Stage 28 - The Phantom Stage - Productions
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1925 - filmed in two-tone Technicolor but released in black and white until the 1928 reissue.)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
  • Dracula (1931) [Royal Albert Hall sequence]
  • The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [special effects stage - used for filming miniatures of the laboratory exterior and destruction of the laboratory]
  • The Raven (1935)
  • Flash Gordon (1936)
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
  • An Appointment for Love (1941)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1943)*
  • The Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)*
  • Psycho (1960) [Interiors of the Bates house]
  • The Birds (1963)
  • Charade [theatre] (1963)
  • Texas Across the River (1966)
  • Torn Curtain (1966) [Theatre auditorium]*
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) [circus scene in theatre]*
  • Airport (1970) [special effects stage - flying miniatures]
  • The Sting (1973)
  • The Eiger Sanction (1975)
  • Gable and Lombard (1976)
  • Mask (1985)
  • Sixth Sense (1972, TV series) [opera house]
  • Knight Rider (1986, TV series) [Season 4 - Fright Knight episode]*
  • Big Break (1990, TV talent show)
  • SeaQuest DSV (1993 - 1996 TV series)[underwater sequences done in the pit]
  • Jurassic Park (1993) [computer control room and hatchery]
  • The American President (1995)
  • Casper (1995)
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
  • Life (1999)
  • Mystery Men (1999) [special effects stage - flying sequences done against greenscreen]
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) [cave set]
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
  • Jurassic Park 3 (2001) [Pteranodon drops Eric into the Nest area. Eric hits hatchlings with his knapsack. Paul, in pursuit, slips and slides, lands down to nest. Paul grabs Eric, they fight their way out of the nest.]
  • The Fast and the Furious (2001)
  • The Scorpion King (2002)
  • The Cat in the Hat (2003) [interior of the Walden house]
  • Hulk (2003) [the first floor of Bruce Banner's house]
  • The Ring Two (2005)
  • The Skeleton Key (2005)
  • War of the Worlds (2005) [bluescreen set for minivan sequence]
  • Jarhead (2005)
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
  • Idlewild (2006)
  • You, Me & Dupree (2006)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007)
  • Land of the Lost (2009) [construction mill]
Stage 28 and KITT from Knight RiderMovies shown above with an asterisk (*) used the original Paris Opera House sets from the Phantom of the Opera.
Apart from the movies and TV shows listed above, Stage 28 sometimes appeared as itself. In the 1986 Knight Rider episode "Fright Knight" a fictional movie studio is threatened by a baddie disguised as the notorious "Phantom of Stage 28". Although the studio is never named as Universal, there are a few sequences showing the interior of Stage 28 complete with opera house sets and many parts of the backlot.

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