The earliest surviving film based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, this silent liberal adaptation de-emphasises the horrific aspects of the book and instead focuses on the novel's more psychological nature. This it achieves with some very impressive special effects for it's time; Dr. Frankenstein seeing the monster in his own reflection.
Thought to be a lost film, it's existence was confirmed in 1963 after it was found listed, along with stills and a synopsis, in a copy of The Edison Kinetogram, a print was found in the mid-1970s by Alois F. Dettlaff, a Wisconsin film collector.
The monster looks very different than how it always seems to appear in later films, thanks to Boris Karloff's 1931 performance in Universal's Frankenstein. The novel is very sketchy on the monster''s appearance however, so it is interesting to see a less common depiction.

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