Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Thomas Edison's long-lost 'Frankenstein' film

The first film of Frankenstein was produced by Thomas Edison's studio in 1910 and was the perfect choice to kick off production under the new moral banner of censorship. An interesting document in its own right, it is also an example of the ways censorship does not merely suppress art, but influences the shape of the art that does appear.

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