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Frankenstein (1910)

Name: Frankenstein
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: 1910
Duration: 12 min
Cast: Charles Stanton Ogle, Mary Fuller, Augustus Phillips

191013 minScience Fiction✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Frankenstein (1910) is a 13-minute science-fiction short film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

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About Frankenstein (1910)

Frankenstein is a 1910 American short silent horror film produced by Edison Studios. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, who also wrote the one-reeler's screenplay, broadly basing his "scenario" on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Described as "a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's famous story", the film shows young Frankenstein (his first name in the book, Victor, is never mentioned) discovering the "mystery of life" after two years at university. He gives life to a creature built by mixing different chemicals, and the monster follows Frankenstein back to his parents' house. The conclusion, completely different from Mary Shelley's book, shows the creature disappearing after seeing its own reflection in the mirror, and without killing Victor's younger brother or his fiancée Elizabeth, as happened in the novel.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Frankenstein (1910 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: J. Searle Dawley
Cast includes: Charles Stanton Ogle, Mary Fuller, Augustus Phillips
Country: United States
Based on: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1910 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Edison silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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