VLVL2 (2) Notes and commentary, p16

[Tim Strzechowski]

> 
> Incidentally, the first so-called 'monster film' was a 1910 version of
> Frankenstein:
> 
> "In making the film the Edison Company has carefully tried to eliminate
> all the actually repulsive situations, and to concentrate upon the
> mystic and psychological problems that are to be found in this weird
> tale. Wherever, therefore, the film differs from the original story, it
> is purely with the idea of eliminating what would be repulsive to a
> moving picture audience."
> 

Frankenstein (1910)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001223

and trivia regarding it
http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0001223

also see
http://rhs.jack.k12.wv.us/sthrills/frank_10.htm

and
http://www.kjenkins49.fsnet.co.uk/fr1910.htm