Description
The Library is home to the sole surviving nitrate print of the first film adaptation of "Frankenstein," produced in 1910 by the Edison Manufacturing Company.
Alois F. “Al” Dettlaff of Cudahy, Wisconsin acquired the print as part of a larger collection in the 1950s, but he wasn’t aware of the film’s significance until the American Film Institute included “Frankenstein” on a list of “top 10 most wanted lost films” in 1980. The Library purchased the Dettlaff Collection in 2014.
Watch the full film and read more about how it was acquired and digitized: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/11/the-first-film-version-of-frankenstein-newly-restored/?loclr=ytb