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J. Searle Dawley, Edison, 1910. Augustus Phillips as the student, Charles Ogle as the creature, Mary Fuller as the fiancée, sixteen minutes. Frankenstein mixes chemicals; a figure forms in a vat of smoke (a burning dummy run backward). The Edison Kinetogram (15 March 1910) printed Ogle on the cover. Long thought lost, and listed by AFI among the most wanted in 1980. Alois Dettlaff's unique nitrate, bought by the Library of Congress in 2014, was restored in 2018 from that print plus Edison Historic Site credits.
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The job: bring something to life. The creature forms in a vat of smoke, a burning dummy run backward. Sixteen minutes, one surviving print, lost for most of a century. Ogle built the creature himself: the wig, the hunch, the hands.
The Supernatural and the Occult
The creature forms in a vat of smoke: a burning dummy run backward. Edison in sixteen minutes, one print, lost for most of a century. Ogle built the makeup himself. The ending, the creature fading in a mirror, is the film's own theory of what a monster is.
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