The Frankenstein Monster in The Asylum of Horror -- October 25, 2024

Hagerstown Daily Mail, 01-October-1924

Halloween is coming.

Frankenstein's Monster made a personal appearance at Hagerstown's Warner Brothers' Maryland Theater. He was part of The Asylum of Horror, a horror/comedy show starring magician Dr Silkini (Jack Baker). The monster was played by Art Dorner, who was said to have doubled for Karloff in the Universal Frankenstein films.

Horror Shockers -- The "Original" Dracula -- December 17, 2020

 

Vampirella 51, 1976

When I was young, I read Warren Publishing magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Vampirella. The magazines always carried ads for back issues, posters and movies. I didn't have a film projector, so I read the ads with envy. Eventually, I got a Super-8 projector, but I didn't have enough money to buy any of these films. A friend had Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and I was fascinated by the way it had been cut down to less than 20 minutes. 

This section of an ad has Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Doctor Frankenstein and the Monster, and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart." 

The last movie has "Ultrasonic Sound." I have to find out if that is from a mag stripe or from a phonograph record. "The Tell Tale Heart" is a short animated cartoon made in 1953 and narrated by James Mason.  

Moving Picture News, 06-December-1930

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Frankenstein, 1910 -- October 30, 2020

Edison Kinetogram, 15-April-1919

Halloween is coming. 

The first actor to play Frankenstein's Monster in a movie was Charles Ogle, in the 1910 Edison Frankenstein. When I was young, this movie was thought to be lost. 

Frankenstein -- October 29, 2015

I think Boris Karloff is the greatest interpreter of Frankenstein's Monster, in the 1931 Frankenstein and the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.  I had a small reproduction of this poster in my room when I was growing up. I first saw both movies on Creature Features, a late night horror show on KTVU Channel 2, hosted by Bob Wilkins.