October 18, 2007

Who is Frankenstein?



This stamp was issues on September 30, 1997.

http://www.sites.si.edu/images/exhibits/Art%20of%20the%20Stamp/index.htm


I bet that anyone who is into horror/scary movies in general, or literature know of this movies. However, contrary to common belief, Frankenstein was not the monster, but the mad doctor who created the monster. The Monster himself has no name. Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelby.

http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/


This a government site is with a Frankenstein exhibition that is divided into four extensive topics:Birth of Frankenstein, The Celluloid Monster, Promise and Peril, and Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus"

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
*Update 1/3/10: link expired


Frankenstein 1931 Trailer



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCnNb5Iyak
*Update 1/3/10: Video removed from YouTube

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