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Why the actual Horror of Dracula footage?


I think it would have been more fun if they had recreated it with puppets. It'd be cool to see Christopher Lee in puppet form.

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And why was it in black & white? 

But nah, while the puppet idea sounds cool, I really like that they used actual footage from the film.



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Because the movie was in black and white like the original Frankenstein. Color TV wouldn't have made sense.

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Horror of Dracula was filmed in color. It was black and white since Frankenweenie was black and white.

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But then it wouldn't actually be Christopher Lee.

Using the footage was sort of his cameo in the movie.

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As the film is love letter to all those old horror Tim wanted to get Lee in some how.

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