VLVL2 (2) Notes and commentary, p16

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of 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
> 
> 
> 

An interesting phenom re: Frankenstein, the character of the title, the
doctor, has been widely warped by popular culture into instead indicating
the doctor's creation (not to say "the monster", which is debatable).  I
wonder if Prairie is thinking of the doctor or the creature in this case...?

Jasper