Last Call! Voting closes Sunday! There are only 13 days a few days left for YOU to decide who
wins this year’s Rondo Awards, so wait no more!
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards celebrate “the best in monster research,
creativity and film preservation”. The
ballot — 35 categories! — is huge, but you can vote is as many or as few
categories as you like. All the info is here.
Should you wish to give us your support, vote FRANKENSTEINIA for Best Blog, Category 19. And if you would
consider me for the Writer’s Award, enter Pierre Fournier in Category 28.
This post, by the way, is the 801st since I launched the
blog back in 2007. I made 104 posts last year, tracking Frankenstein in films,
books, comics, art and popular culture. Here, for your consideration, are some
of my personal favorites from 2012…
Ballyhoo, Oz-style… A case study in 5 posts on how the 1931 Frankenstein was promoted in Brisbane, including a photo of
Australia’s Tallest Man touring the country in Frankenstein makeup and costume.
Primo Frankenstein… Unseen for 55 years, Primo Carnera’s TV
Monster of 1957!
Cagney Does Frankenstein… Fun find as James Cagney pays
onscreen homage to his friend Boris Karloff in Footlight Parade (1933).
And finally, I am very proud of my Silent Frankenstein series, 8 posts in all, featuring new information
about the Edison Frankenstein of
1910; Life Without Soul of 1915 —
notably how the film resurfaced in 1931 to compete with the blockbuster
Karloff film! and Il Mostro di Frankenstein of 1920 — featuring vintage trade ads and the only
known photograph from this lost film! The Silent series also covered
Frankensteinian themes in silent films such as The Golem, Homunculus, Alraune, and many other
titles.
My favorite post of all from last year was The Silent Frankenstein’s Roving Props about the
Edison film of 1910, in which we learn that Charles Ogle’s creepy, branch-like
hands came… from Mars! True! Go
look!
Thank you for your kind consideration. The Rondo Award ballot
is here. Voting closes April 7.
1 comment:
Thanks for the heads up on the Rondo Awards! I have yet to fill out my ballot.
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