{"id":820,"date":"2012-08-20T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/20\/retronaut-unearths-frankenstein-on-his-off-day\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:54:00","slug":"retronaut-unearths-frankenstein-on-his-off-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/20\/retronaut-unearths-frankenstein-on-his-off-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Retronaut unearths Frankenstein on his off-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2012\/08\/behind-the-scenes-of-frankenstein-1931-1939\/\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"187\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn1.retronaut.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/818-520x489.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>You can easily pull back the curtain of movie magic on almost any recent, major motion picture. It could be as innocuous as a clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/static.themetapicture.com\/media\/funny-Batman-Bane-laughing-behind-scenes.jpg\">Bane and Batman off the clock<\/a>, but even obtuse films like Terrence Malick&#8217;s <i>The Tree of Life<\/i> come with special features explaining their production. For most older movies, the special features usually include commentary from critics and possibly a documentary about its historical context.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what makes these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2012\/08\/behind-the-scenes-of-frankenstein-1931-1939\/\">behind-the-scenes pictures of <i>Frankenstein<\/i><\/a> from history blog Retronaut so entertaining: you wouldn&#8217;t have expected these pictures to survive! The image of Boris Karloff decked up in monster make-up is one of the most indelible images of horror, but now you too can experience the joy of breaking down that icon by seeing Frankenstein&#8217;s monster on his smoke break.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the real thing, check out the original 1931 <i>Frankenstein<\/i> from Media Services (HU DVD 860).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can easily pull back the curtain of movie magic on almost any recent, major motion picture. It could be as innocuous as a clip of Bane and Batman off the clock, but even obtuse films like Terrence Malick&#8217;s The Tree of Life come with special features explaining their production. For most older movies, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}