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| Frankenstein (1910) film title frame |
Title: "Frankenstein"
Category: Movies
Subcategory: Horror
Director and screenwriter: James Searle Dawley
Based on: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Starring:
--- Augustus Phillips (Dr. Frankenstein)
--- Charles Ogle (the Monster)
--- Mary Fuller (Elizabeth)
--- Augustus Phillips (Dr. Frankenstein)
--- Charles Ogle (the Monster)
--- Mary Fuller (Elizabeth)
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| James Searle Dawley May 13, 1877 - March 30, 1949, director and screenwriter of Frankenstein |
Producer - Distributor: Edison Manufacturing Company
Released: March 18, 1910 - New York City, USA
Running time: 13 min.
Color: B/W, color
Language: Silent
Music by: Life Toward Twilight
Summary plot: Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mirror, is horrified and runs away. He later returns, entering the new bride's room, and finds her alone.
Interesting facts: For many years, this film was believed to be a lost film. In 1963, a plot description and stills were discovered published in the issue of an old Edison film catalog, "The Edison Kinetogram". In the early 1950s a print of this film was purchased by a Wisconsin film collector, who did not realize its rarity until many years later. Its existence was first revealed in the mid-1970s.
Property: Edison Manufacturing Company
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Frankenstein (1910), poster from the cover of "The Edison Kinetogram" film catalog |
Frankenstein (1910), complete film ready to play (13 min.) |
