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eerie eddie
02-02-2005, 06:35 PM
Has anyone heard about, or seen this? My grandpa somehow got it and made me a copy on DVD. It's about 15 minutes long and pretty old.
Gojira
02-02-2005, 08:01 PM
I know that Thomas Edison made the very 1st Frankenstien movie back in 1910. Actor Charles Ogle was the monster Ogle also did his own make up. A few years later in 1915 actor Percy Darrell played the monster in the 2nd Frankenstien movie titled Life without a soul. The movie Life without a soul was produced by Ocean Film Corporation but was later dropped and taken over by Raver Film corperation. Mr Raver is credited with adding scientific scenes to the movie. Many if not all horror movie fans know of the 3rd Frankenstien movie made in 1931 staring William Henry Pratt a.k.a. Boris Karloff and made by Universal studios.
filmmaker2
02-03-2005, 05:17 AM
I've never seen the whole thing, only scenes from it. I understand it was "lost" for many years.
The Monster's "birth scene" is pretty hella cool...they built a puppet skeleton and molded flesh over it in wax, melted the wax on camera while the skeleton writhed, and then printed the footage in reverse to show the flesh oozing up out of the steaming vat onto the skeleton. Pretty darn advanced, considering this was the dawn of filmmaking!
MrShape
02-03-2005, 10:27 AM
Originally posted by eerie eddie
Has anyone heard about, or seen this? My grandpa somehow got it and made me a copy on DVD. It's about 15 minutes long and pretty old.
Shit! How do the rest of us find a copy? I thought that one was lost, lost, lost.:D
Gojira
02-03-2005, 12:08 PM
Mr. Shape there was a DVD that has 1910 Edison Frankenstien and 1922 Nosferatu I had a site that was selling them bookmarked but I seem to have lost the site when I switched computers. Anyway just try a search who knows maybe its listed someplace.
I recorded a Horror Special off of the SCi-Fi Channel a few years back and it actually had a few scenes from Edisons' Frankenstein, Specifically the "birth scene"
eerie eddie
02-03-2005, 01:17 PM
Originally posted by filmmaker2
I've never seen the whole thing, only scenes from it. I understand it was "lost" for many years.
The Monster's "birth scene" is pretty hella cool...they built a puppet skeleton and molded flesh over it in wax, melted the wax on camera while the skeleton writhed, and then printed the footage in reverse to show the flesh oozing up out of the steaming vat onto the skeleton. Pretty darn advanced, considering this was the dawn of filmmaking!
Yeah it was.
Elliot_Voorhees
02-03-2005, 05:24 PM
Originally posted by Gojira
Mr. Shape there was a DVD that has 1910 Edison Frankenstien and 1922 Nosferatu I had a site that was selling them bookmarked but I seem to have lost the site when I switched computers. Anyway just try a search who knows maybe its listed someplace.
My best friend has the original 1922 Nosferatu :D
Gojira
02-03-2005, 09:04 PM
Well MoviesUnlimited has Nosferatu 1922 on VHS and DVD
ClassicHorror
02-05-2005, 09:31 AM
Originally posted by Elliot_Voorhees
My best friend has the original 1922 Nosferatu :D
BIG DEAL. I have like 6 Nosferatu's.
I have so many silent horror films.....
My top 5 silent horror films....
5. The Golem
4. Phantom of The Opera
3. Un Chien Andalou
2. Nosferatu
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Gojira
02-05-2005, 09:51 AM
LOL Classic how could you have 6 Nosferatu movies when only 2 were made 1 in 1922 and a remake in 1979. Unless you just like buying the same movie 6 times.
ClassicHorror
02-06-2005, 07:29 AM
No offense Gojira but you didn't read what I wrote right, I said I have 6 Nosferatu 22's.
And the reason I have 6 is because people sometimes get me movies I already have. Either that or the film came in a double pack.
Gojira
02-06-2005, 03:20 PM
Ah I see that explains it friends just gave you a movie you already had. If I were a diehard fan of that movie Nosferatu 1922 I might have it on DVD and VHS and the remake in 1979Nosferatu movie.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by ClassicHorror
[B]BIG DEAL. I have like 6 Nosferatu's.
I have so many silent horror films.....
It's easy to get multiple copies of the same movie when you buy any Horror Collection on DVD or VHS. I have about seven or eight copies myself, all with different collections:
Trio of Terror
Horror Classics #2
The Definitive Horror Collection
Great Horror Classics
Horror Classic Video Library
Nosferatu (Stand alone)
and a couple of others that don't come to mind. Another movie that you will find you get a bunch of in alot of movie collections is House on Haunted Hill w/ Vincent Price. As a matter of fact, you usually get the collection with a bunch of "third rate films" just so you can get that "one" movie that you can't find by itself, at the same price or a buck or two more, then one movie.
thepsychicfetus
02-07-2005, 06:32 PM
Originally posted by ClassicHorror
BIG DEAL. I have like 6 Nosferatu's.
I have so many silent horror films.....
My top 5 silent horror films....
5. The Golem
4. Phantom of The Opera
3. Un Chien Andalou
2. Nosferatu
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
nosferatu and cabinet are 2 of my favorite silent films. i also have a bunch of other older ones(which arent silent but still great). white zombie with bela lugosi and the terror with jack nicholson and boris karloff. good movies.
un chien andalou was a film that inspired clockwork orange isnt it?
ClassicHorror
02-08-2005, 04:05 AM
white zombie, and the other films you mentioned aren't silent, but they sure are great. :cool: