Gods and Monsters

Celebrate Poe

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This episode describes the dramatic filming of the 1931 version Frankenstein - how the studio felt making it was a very risky move - and how the creature became a cultural icon. This podcast also deals with the connection between Mary Shelley, Edgar Poe and Fuseli's The Nightmare!
Link to 1910 Silent Version of Frankenstein from 1910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ENQibFW9w
Link to The Magician - In Hell clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAgnvcSwLw

Link to The Magician - Entire movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl0dc5cB-8w

Clips from James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Ntv7DJURM&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo54KKGUtHDmD98-musuj6l&index=1

• Using Frankenstein to illustrate medical concepts?
• How do you pronounce Laemmie?
• Why is the creature sometimes called Frankenstein?
• What other films influenced director James Whale in making Frankenstein?
• How was Dracula responsible for the production of Frankenstein?
• How did they come up with the creature’s makeup?
• How were Frankenstein (and Poe) influenced by a painting called “The Nightmare?”

00:00 Introduction
02:14 Health issues
04:30 Frankenstein invades the theatre/cartoons
08:34 1910 Silent version of Frankenstein
10:05 Concerns from Universal Studios
15:27 Director James Whale and his background
17:55 Movie influences
20:50 Casting for Frankenstein
24:05 Boris Karloff and Frankenstein
27:53 Look and makeup for the monster
32:59 Creation scene
34:41 Notorious or censored sections
36:52 More problems with the movie
39:23 Similarity to The Nightmare and dreams
42:02 Poe and incubus
44:31 Frankenstein’s first screening
47:42 Success of the movie
50:11 Conclusion
52:01 Sources and Outro