Music
Any one know where i can get the music that is played during the flim, also that wasnt the orignal music was it?
shareSilent films, especially at that time (1910) virtually never had "original" music. It was the job of the individual theater musician to cobble together a musical accompaniment--appropriate or otherwise depending on his or her skill. Sometimes studios would assist by circulating a cue sheet indicating in vague general terms the mood of music that should accompany individual scenes and some music publishers like Sam Fox maintained collections of original or classical sheet music cataloged by mood especially for theater musicians. Even into the 1920s, many low-budget films weren't distributed with written scores, and when they were, those scores were often compilations of classical themes rather than original music. The score recorded for the DVD release of Frankenstein is entirely appropriate and typical of what would be done at the time, which makes it as "original" as it ever got.
The music chosen for the DVD came from Edison's original cue sheet. Fred Weibel bought records with the songs on them, and pieced together a rough score, which Rob Hovermale used to produce his own. That's what was used.
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