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Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991 Directed by Ted Newsom
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Bud Abbott Nick Adams Evelyn Ankers Lionel Atwill Ralph Bates Whit Bissell Peter Boyle Veronica Carlson John Carradine Lon Chaney Jr. Colin Clive Gary Conway Lou Costello Joseph Cotten Hazel Court Peter Cushing Susan Denberg Marty Feldman Dwight Frye Koji Furuhata Cedric Hardwicke Boris Karloff Sandra Knight Elsa Lanchester Bela Lugosi Paul Müller Donald Murphy Rosalba Neri Narda Onyx Show All…
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01 Jan 1991
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Ted Newsom passed recently. If you’re not familiar with him, he was a fan of Classic Horror who managed a career as a professional fan, so to speak, writing books, doing dvd commentaries, and producing material like this, a one hour compilation of Frankenstein trailers, along with some basic background info.
Zoomers probably don’t see the big deal, but before the internet you could only see trailers for old monster movies on VHS compilations like this. Now you can look up all of these and more on YouTube. It’s an improvement of course; instead of paying for a tape of selected trailers, you can just watch them all. But all the same, it makes them seem less special than I…
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I'm a sucker for trailer compilations compiled with nice bits of trivia between them.
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Accurate to its name it's more a compilation than documentary. But you do get some narration on the details and facts Inbetween.