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The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)

Open Culture 25 August 2026 22h ago
The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
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The story of humans creating monstrous beings in their image may have perennial relevance, even if it seems specific to our contemporary cultural moment. What, after all, is Oscar Isaac’s AI inventor in Ex Machina but a 21st-century update of Victor Frankenstein? (Before Isaac went on to portray Victor himself in Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film […]
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