[00:03.080]Sold.
[00:04.900]Your number, sir?
[00:06.500]Thank you.
[00:08.040]Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:11.730]A papier-mâché musical box in the shape of a barrel organ
[00:15.570]Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals
[00:20.450]This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre
[00:24.130]still in working order
[00:26.180]Showing here
[00:27.710]May I start at twenty francs?
[00:29.720]Fifteen then. Fifteen I am bid.
[00:32.810]Twenty, sir, thank you. Twenty.
[00:34.280]Twenty-five, thank you, madame.
[00:36.650]Thirty. Selling at thirty, then.
[00:38.900]Thirty once, twice
[00:42.100]Sold for thirty francs
[00:44.010]to the Vicomte de Chagny. Thank you, sir
[00:48.800]A collector's piece indeed
[00:53.510]every detail exactly as she said
[00:59.200]She often spoke of you, my friend
[01:02.940]Your velvet lining and your figurine of lead
[01:08.770]Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead?
[01:17.810]Lot 666, then
[01:20.670]A chandelier in pieces
[01:22.940]Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera
[01:28.000]A mystery never fully explained
[01:30.170]We are told, ladies and gentlemen
[01:32.020]that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster
[01:36.990]Our workshops have restored it
[01:39.500]and fitted all parts of it with wiring for the new electric light
[01:42.900]so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when reassembled
[01:46.940]Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago
[01:51.590]with a little illumination
[01:53.630]gentlemen