Since its original release, the film had been listed as missing. No copies of it were known to exist. An original nitrate print finally turned up in Wisconsin in the mid-1970s.
First filmed version of the story of Frankenstein's monster.
This is one of the only Frankenstein films where the monster is truly created. All Frankenstein films that followed assembled body parts from various corpses to make the monster. In this film, Frankenstein uses chemicals and "potions" to create the monster. The "creation" scene was made by filming a monster-dummy burning, and then playing the footage backwards.
Prior to the film's rediscovery, only a few images of Charles Ogle as The Monster were known to exist. Interestingly, Ogle looks a lot younger in the film than he does in the photographs.
Produced and released 92 years after the original Mary Shelley novel was published, and 59 years after Shelley's death.