EXTREMELY RARE ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ COLOR FOOTAGE

Sara Karloff shared this, the only known color footage of her father in costume as the Frankenstein monster. It is shot by a crew member with a home movie camera during a makeup test. The man Karloff clowns around with is Makeup Director, Jack Pierce. “The makeup had this greenish tint,” she explained, because “in black and white film, on the screen, it would translate into a deathly gray.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g3f-zm2jyFo

This is not a “color test” — this is from a reel of 16mm home movies belonging to the Karloff family. There WAS a Technicolor test shot on the film but it’s still hidden in some vault in New Jersey.

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