Frankenstein

Frankenstein

by Thomas Edison

I. About the Film

 Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios. 

It was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.

This 16-minute short film was the first motion picture adaptation 

of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus 

Phillips  as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as the Monster, 

and Mary Fuller as the doctor's flancee.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3_(1910%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB)

II. Versions of the Film

Directed byJ. Searle Dawley in 1910
actor /actress

Augustus Phillips

Charles Stanton Ogle

Mary Claire Fuller 

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLxsOJK9bs

III. About the Director

James Searle Dawley

 American filmmaker J. Searle Dawley, directed

many silent films. He started out in the theater working

as an actor, producer and playwright. In 1907, he began working

for the Edison company advising director Edwin S. Porter

on how to deal with actors. Eventually, Dawley became Porter's assistant

director and was usually placed in charge of overseeing the acting

and dramatic continuity while Porter focused on the action scenes.

It was in one of their 1907 films, Eagle's Nest that D.W. Griffith got his start

as an actor. While with Edison and Porter's independent studio,

Dawley directed close to 300 one-reelers. In 1912, Porter and Dawley

signed to Famous Players. With this move came a promotion and Dawley

became an executive assistant, creative consultant, and finally,

a full-fledged director who went on to work with some

of the era's biggest stars, including John Barrymore and

Mary Pickford. Dawley retired in the mid 1920s.

He directed 149 films between 1907 and 1926.

There are the work which is famous in that.

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest(1908)

Hansel and Gretel (1909)

Frankenstein (1910)

A Christmas Carol (1910)

Charge of the Light Brigade (1912)

The Old Monk's Tale (1913)

On The Broad Stairway (1913)

Hulda of Holland(1913)

Leah Kleschna(1913)

A Lady of Quality (1913)

An American Citizen (1914)

Four Feathers (1915)

Susie Snowflake(1916)

The Rainbow Princess (1916)

Snow White (1916)

Uncle Tom's Cabin(1918)

When Men Desire (1919)

A Virgin Paradise (1921)

Love's Old Sweet Song(1923) 

short film made in Phonofilm

Abraham Lincoln (1924) 

short film made in Phonofilm

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Searle_Dawley

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - mood(物語の雰囲気やそれが呼び起こす感)

The atmosphere that this movie is dark generally.

This work brings on a scarier atmosphere by a monochrome color.

But I felt this movie for a child because actor reaction is

very over and movie was made cheaply.

B. Reaction Point - message(中心的な考えやストーリーの声明)

he learn about the latest science at a university, 

and Frankenstein studying natural science starts a plan to create

 the human being. Victor uses the body and completes a robot.

 However, he feels fear in the ugliness of the monster whom oneself 

produced and runs away from the place. The robot left one for 

begins to walk the life as a superman having intelligence 

and the tough body in this way. However, he who became not 

able to bear that I live in alone asks for the cause of Victor 

who is a biological parent to make arrival, the woman that 

it is with a wife. If even a wife makes it, Victor told to never

 appear builds up another robot. However, it may be expected 

that a family cursed from there opens in the world if a child is born 

among two people. He who thought so murders her by own hand.

•  He who knew that oneself was betrayed begins to murder family and friends of Victor for revenge. Cornered Victor will confront him in an arctic ice field of the severe cold to kill own creature by own hand

C. Reaction Point - cinematography(映画の中のカメラワーク)

• The direction of the movie characteristic to use the reverse mawashi is seen while I strongly remind of the Fanta's Mago rear which is the origin of the movie, and the picture which a fixed camera projects is rife in an inventive idea.
• A camera gives an effect to let you forget what is fixed by waving the viewpoint of the person who watches the direction to let you project a monster approaching from the frame outside of the camera behind Frankenstein on the mirror put in the edge of room to the right-side end and the left edge of the frame and does not let a person watching it get tired.

D. My General Opinion

I think that this actor's reaction is over.

when I knew it with the author of this work,I was very surprised.

Because Thomas Edison was only the image of the inventor.　

Also I want to watch other works because

there was a kind elsewhere.