The Original ‘Frankenstein’ Has Finally Been Restored After 108 Years

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/frankenstein-1910-watch-library-of-congress-1202021789/
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/11/the-first-film-version-of-frankenstein-newly-restored/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ENQibFW9w (1080p)

“Frankenstein” isn’t the only “Frankenstein.” James Whale’s 1931 take on Mary Shelley’s iconic novel was beaten to the punch by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which in 1910 produced what a title card describes as a “liberal adaptation” of the story.

It’s described as neither “all that revelatory” nor “especially rare” in a new Library of Congress blog entry, but a newly restored version of the 13-minute short is instead “an instance in which the story of how a particular reel came to be in our collection is more interesting than the film itself.”