Director James Whale (1889–1957)

-grew up poor in an English mining town

-put on plays in World War I, German prison camp-Broadway in London-contract w/ Paramount, began horror movies (22 Movies)

+ Frankenstein (1931)

GENRES:

-Drama  - Horror - Sci-Fi  - Thriller Laboratory

Universal Studios Laboratory, USA

Film length (meters)(8 reels)

Runtime:71 min

Sound Mix:Mono

(Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)

Color:Black and White

Film negative format (mm/video inches)35 mm

Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, and William Harrigan

•A scientist turns himself invisible.

• the formula slowly drives him insane,

•Begins terrorizing the countryside as an invisible killer.

• Grew up doing theater, Broadway in London

• Son of an actor Frederick Rains

• Became an acting teacher, Royal Academy

• Married 6 times(1 death, 5 divorces)

+Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

+Casablanca (1942) +Notorious (1946)+ Deception (1946)

+Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Preformed in 40+ titles in anything from comedy to psychological

drama with some horror

• Grew up in California

• Work on a stage in small productions

• Late husband, Arthur Sheekman, was a screen writer

• Many relatives associated w/ acting/writing

• Retired, painted, and did one woman shows in NY, Austria, & Italy• The Titanic

• Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man • The Million Dollar Hotel• The Three Musketeers • Poor Little Rich Girl• Gold Diggers of 1935

Passed away at 100In 2010

•Active in Broadway

•Son of actor/playwrighter Edward Harrigan

•Married 3 times

+The Girl in 419 with

+The United States Steel Hour (TV series) 1954-1960 +Whipsaw 1935

+ ‘G’ Men 1935

• Claude Rains becomes invisible to escape harsh circumstances of the Depression.

• Like the Great Depression, he wreaks havoc on the town, killing people.

• “The Invisible Man,” a 1933 science fiction movie, represents the Great Depression and how people saw movies, as a form

of escapism.

• At times, in fear, audiences wanted the Invisible Man locked up. Other times, they found humor in the things he was able to do while invisible and hoped he could get away with it.

There really was no single hero you could root for in the film that could capture the killer. It showed that no one person could help the US out of the Great Depression.

“We'll begin with a reign of terror, a few murders here and there, murders

of great men, murders of little men, just to show

we make no distinction.”

-The

Invisible Man

Comparable to Great Depression.

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