October 23, 2015
80th Anniversary BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN series
A Frankenstein "Laff"
Here’s a rarity, a panel cartoon take on BRIDE OF
FRANKENSTEIN, from the pages of the industry trade paper Motion Picture
Herald of 29 June 1935.
House cartoonist Milt Rosenfeld shows a couple of Legion of
Decency types investigating the new Frankenstein film to see if it’s “another
sex picture”. The ladies are then seen to
exit in a hurry, having had a shock of another kind.
The Motion Picture Herald first appeared in 1915 out of Chicago as the Exhibitors
Herald and evolved under various titles
over the silent era through mergers and acquisitions, eventually consolidating
under the highly influential publisher/editor-in-chief Martin Quigley in 1930.
Published on Fridays, the exhibitor’s publication would run until 1972. Many
celebrated writers, film historians and industry pundits would grace the Herald’s pages through the years. The legendary New
York Times film critic Vincent Canby got
his start there in the 1950’s.
Milt Rosenfeld produced his innocuous cartoons, never
editorializing, under the “Showmen’s Lobby Laffs” banner. Here, from May 1940,
is another genre-related cartoon, this one about the “Invisable” Man sequel
that starred an unseen Vincent Price. The caption says, “Usher: He wants
half his admission back… Says he couldn’t see half the picture”.
Source: Motion Picture Herald is digitized online at Archive.org and the Media History Digital Library.
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I don't know if this counts as a tip, but in NFL's Madden 16 (for Halloween) you can get an oversized (8 foot tall) Rob Gronkowski to face in actual gameplay. His name?
Gronkenstein!
http://jimmmcshane.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/19gronkenstein.jpg
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