1:00:03
in photographing the rascally Pretorius,
1:00:05
and thus achieved the effect
of a bulging cranium."
1:00:08
"To give the effect of deadness, Karloff's
make-up was blue-green in colour,
1:00:12
and the light was projected
through blue filters."
1:00:15
"When other characters
appeared with him,
1:00:17
the make-ups of the others
were pink or reddish in tone,
1:00:20
and lights of a corresponding shade
had to be trained on them,
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while the blue lights
must be shielded from them."
1:00:45
The laboratory scenes
are patterned in equal parts
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on sequences from two silent films
produced in Europe.
1:00:52
They are the creation of the female robot
in Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis,
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filmed in Germany,
1:00:58
and the medieval climax of the 1926
Rex Ingram film The Magician,
1:01:02
filmed in France.
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Kenneth Strickfaden built
the electrical apparatus.