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Longtime visitors here might recall I have something of a loose tradition of doing drawings of Frankenstein’s monster on Halloween. So here you go again!
…What? You don’t recognize this guy? That’s because he pre-dates the Universal Studios/Boris Karloff version we’re all more familiar with. In fact, you’re looking at the first film version of Frankenstein ever, from 1910! Released by Thomas Edison and running between 11–16 minutes (depending on how fast the film passed through the projector), you could say it was something of a “Cliffs Notes” version of the story. Like the later Universal version, there were some alterations to Mary S
For years, this film was thought to be one of the (sadly) many lost films of the silent era. Growing up, I only ever saw a couple of still images from it in library books about old sci fi, horror and fantasy films. But the film was later discovered in a private film collection! Apparently, the Library of Congress did a restoration project of the film not long ago, and you can see it here .