WORLD PREMIERE DOCUMENTARY: TCM celebrates the spirit of Halloween with the world premiere of the original documentary Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces on October 24 at 8 p.m. (ET) as part of a Tuesday-night horror festival of classic fright fare throughout October. The last two Tuesdays of the month, Oct. 24 and Oct. 31, will be devoted to Chaney, with the documentary, airing on both nights, accompanied by eight classic Chaney films. TCM's Web site will also feature Chaney-style Halloween make-up tips and information based on Chaney's films. Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, chronicles Chaney's life from his birth in 1883 to his death in 1930, shortly after appearing in his first talking movie. It explores Chaney's diverse career and sheds light on his very private personal life. The accompanying festival will feature his best-known films, including the U.S. television premiere of Photoplay Production's restoration of The Phantom of the Opera (1925, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.), with a new score by Carl Davis; the world premiere of three silents newly scored by TCM; and Chaney's only talking picture, The Unholy Three (1930, Oct. 24, 3 a.m.). Both the documentary and The Unholy Three will be closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired. Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces examines the film career and techniques of this diverse actor and details Chaney's early life with his deaf parents and the circumstances that contributed to Chaney's chameleon persona. Rare, rescued film clips; personal photos and letters; and interviews with such luminaries as author Ray Bradbury, writer/director Orson Welles, author and make-up artist Michael F. Blake and Chaney family members illustrate this story of his life and characters. The documentary was produced by Patrick Stanbury for Photoplay Prods. in association with TCM and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and directed by Kevin Brownlow. Chaney directed seven of the 151 silent films in which he starred. Only four of the 110 films that he made for Universal survive today, and many more of his films are in need of restoration. Three films were recently scored by TCM as part of the network's on-going restoration effort; one, The Ace of Hearts (1921, Oct. 24, 1 a.m.), was scored by the first winner of TCM's annual Young Film Composers competition, Vivek Maddala. Also highlighting the two-day festival will be Tell It to the Marines (1926, Oct. 24, 9:30 p.m.), with an original score by Robert Israel, and Mr. Wu (1927, Oct. 31, 11:30 p.m.), with an original score by Maria Newman. The Unknown (1927, Oct. 31, 3 a.m.) features an original score by the Alloy Orchestra. The Unholy Three (1930), Chaney's only talking picture, will also be featured. Kevin Brownlow, the director of Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces, is well known internationally for his film preservation efforts and his love of silent cinema. Since starting his own film collection at the age of 11, Kevin Brownlow has always worked in the cinema, either as a filmmaker, or cinema historian. He was supervising editor on Tony Richardson's The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). With Andrew Mollo, he directed two feature films, It Happened Here (1964), released by United Artists, about an imaginary German occupation of England, and Winstanley (1975), made for the British Film Institute and set in the aftermath of the English Civil War. In 1980, with David Gill, Brownlow produced and directed a 13 part television series, Hollywood, based on Brownlow's book The Parade's Gone By. The series stimulated so much enthusiasm that Brownlow's reconstruction of Napoleon was shown as part of the 1980 London Film Festival. The five-hour Abel Gance epic was accompanied by a full orchestra playing a specially commissioned score composed and conducted by Carl Davis. The outstanding success of the event demonstrated to a modern audience the power and excitement of silent filmmaking, long dismissed as primitive and inaccessible. Napoleon continues to be shown around the world. In 1990 Brownlow and Gill formed their own company, Photoplay Productions, to continue their work. In 1992, Channel Four Television agreed to support silent film revivals under the name of Channel Four Silents with a restoration of the Rudolph Valentino classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The restorations continued with Wings, The Iron Horse, Sunrise and The Phantom of the Opera. Brownlow and Gill produced and directed many award-winning documentaries on cinema. They followed Hollywood with three documentary series on the great comedians of the silent era: Unknown Chaplin (1983), Buster Keaton: A Hard to Follow (1987) and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1990). The team also produced British Cinema in 1985, featuring programs directed by Alan Parker, Lindsay Anderson and Sir Richard Attenborough. In 1993, their documentary D.W. Griffith - Father of Film was broadcast in the U.S. and the UK. In 1995, they completed The Other Hollywood , a celebration of the centenary of cinema, a six-part documentary on European silent film for BBC2, Cinema Europe. Brownlow also produced the original documentary Universal Horror for Turner Classic Movies. Brownlow's books on cinema history include How it Happened Here (1968); The Parade's Gone ByŠ (1968); The War the West and the Wilderness (1978); Hollywood: The Pioneers (1979); Napoléon-Abel Gance's Classic Film (1983); Behind the Mask of Innocence (1990); David Lean - a Biography (1996); and Mary Pickford Discovered (1999).