The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

00:07:19 in a way that Victor Frankenstein and the monster were like Yin and Yang

00:08:44 was staged with the simplest materials, enhanced immeasurably by dim lighting.

00:10:20 Bela Lugosi was a hot actor. He'd just come off of Dracula

00:11:55 There actually was a test scene of Lugosi shot for Frankenstein.

00:13:14 It was the moment when theatre directors were being imported by Hollywood

00:14:41 Jack Pierce was the creator of all the classic Universal horror make-ups

00:16:12 and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

00:17:27 in some of the original tests he looked too alive, his eyes looked too alive.

00:18:58 The boots were heavy and cumbersome.

00:20:31 Emotionally, so much of Frankenstein leads up to that moment

00:21:58 She went marching across the room with the monster steps.

00:23:25 He did wiggle his little finger, which was a little finger compared to the rest of him

00:24:43 So Karloff, of course, accepted it.

00:26:12 that he may have played on film

00:27:36 so of course children across the world

00:29:06 and that is something that taps into his own sense of demonstration

00:30:36 instead of an establishing long shot

00:32:06 and then the monster enters Elizabeth's room and confronts her

00:33:52 Some people saw the entire scene, some saw him just reaching for her

00:35:30 articulate, well-read English gentleman

00:37:03 Basil Rathbone played the title role of Wolf Van Frankenstein.

00:39:47 in a halting, robotic manner.

00:42:07 All over the country people pitched in and helped us.

01:09:03 to such implausibilities.