:11:02
Just a slightly fuller face with a few
little burn scars and the singed-off hair.
:11:07
A great make-up.
Actually there was another change.
:11:10
In the original make-up, he only had one
clamp on his head - this side actually.
:11:17
It was something they didn't notice
for the longest time.
:11:21
You would see pictures from the Bride,
:11:23
and you saw the two big clamps, the little
ones in-between and the ones on the side.
:11:27
I used to always assume that was
the same on the original make-up.
:11:31
Later, when I started looking at it,
I said "He only has one clamp."
:11:35
During the filming of Frankenstein,
Karloff sustained a serious back injury,
:11:39
and suffered many discomforts due to
the weighted boots and padded costume.
:11:43
For the sequel, efforts were made
to lessen the ordeal.
:11:47
I'm sure they treated him more like a star,
:11:49
because he was successful with
Frankenstein and some films after that.
:11:53
I think that, in the original, the top of his
head was probably fabricated each day,
:11:59
built up out of cotton and collodion.
:12:02
In the Bride and the Son later on,
there was a rubber forehead that went on,
:12:07
which probably sped up the process
for Boris and Jack.
:12:11
I know they gave Karloff a slant board,
because he still couldn't quite sit down.
:12:17
I have a picture in my office of him in this
great slant board, drinking a cup of tea.
:12:23
The make-up posed technical challenges
for cinematographer John Mescall,
:12:26
who required special lighting
for the monster's skin tones.
:12:30
Jack Pierce's make-up for the monster
essentially was a blue-green colour.
:12:35
This was not due to any belief in
a colour aesthetic for the monster.
:12:40
But if the monster were photographed
wearing this shade of greasepaint,
:12:44
on orthochromatic film,
:12:46
and if he was lit as Mescall lit him,
with blue-gelled light,
:12:50
he would read as dead white.
:12:52
Mescall had red added into the make-up
of those who had scenes with the monster
:12:59
and often trained warmer lights on them.