Prologue

[00:01.10] Sold. Your number, sir? Thank you
[00:07.33] Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen:
[00:10.62] a papier-mâché musical box
[00:12.91] in the shape of a barrel-organ
[00:14.83] Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes
[00:18.03] playing the cymbals
[00:19.66] This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre
[00:23.12] still in working order
[00:25.39] Showing here
[00:27.02] May I start at twenty francs? Fifteen, then?
[00:30.74] Fifteen I am bid
[00:31.73] Twenty, sir? Thank you. Twenty
[00:33.46] Twenty five. Twenty five, thank you, madam
[00:35.15] Thirty. Selling at thirty then
[00:37.98] Thirty once, twice
[00:39.98] Sold for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny
[00:45.02] Thank you, sir
[00:48.61] A collector's piece indeed
[00:52.61] every detail exactly as she said
[00:58.70] She often spoke of you, my friend
[01:02.25] your velvet lining and your figurine of lead
[01:08.49] Will you still play, when all the rest of us are dead?
[01:16.62] Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces
[01:21.70] Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera:
[01:26.77] A mystery never fully explained
[01:29.09] We are told, ladies and gentlemen
[01:30.93] that this is the very chandelier
[01:32.70] which figures in the famous disaster
[01:35.78] Our workshops have restored it
[01:37.77] and fitted up parts of it with wiring
[01:40.17] for the new electric light
[01:41.65] So that we may get a hint
[01:43.10] of what it may look like when reassembled
[01:45.70] Perhaps we may frighten away
[01:48.22] the ghost of so many years ago
[01:50.30] with a little illumination, gentlemen?
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