It's short, not quite thirteen minutes. It's stagy and melodramatic. The effects are crude, though surprisingly effective and the film stock is very degraded.
But put yourself in the mind of somebody in 1910. Maybe you've seen a couple of the new short silent film reels, maybe you've never seen moving pictures at all.
You're ushered into a dark room and watch in horror as a grotesque monster is born out of a steaming cauldron. A backwards immolation as the figure forms out of burned meat. And then a shaggy monstrous creature, not even remotely human stalks its appalled creator.
It must have seemed apocalyptic.
Edison Frankenstein - 1910:
Some history.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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