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!
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