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Title In search of the real Frankenstein [videorecording] / produced by Wild Dream Films for the History Channel ; produced & directed by Stuart Clarke.

Imprint [Burlington, VT?] : A&E Television Networks ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by New Video, [2008]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  500 D396Bi 2008    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; Dolby digital stereo.
Note Title from container.
Performer Narrator: Rodd Houston.
Credits Director of photography, Stephen Hart ; editor, John Carozzi ; music, Dimitri Tchamouroff.
Event Originally produced as an episode of Decoding the past in 2006.
Summary Examines how the experiments of four scientists--Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Andrew Ure, and Konrad Dippel--inspired Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
Contents Introduction -- Mary Shelley's novel -- Reality vs. myth -- Percy's influence -- Burg Frankenstein -- Elixir of life.
Subject Democritus, Christianus, 1673-1734.
Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798.
Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857.
Resuscitation.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
Genre/Form Television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary -- Television.
Added Author Clarke, Stuart.
Houston, Rodd.
Wild Dream Films.
History Channel (Television network)
Arts and Entertainment Network.
New Video Group.
Added Title Decoding the past (Television program)
ISBN 1422915824
9781422915820
Standard No. 733961117479
Music No. AAAE117470 A & E Home Video

 
    
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