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A scientist eagerly encountering the wonders of modern chemistry: a scene from Thomas Edison’s film Frankenstein (1910), starring Charles Ogle. “The world was to me a secret I desired to divine,” declares Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s original novel (1818). Photograph from the book Edison’s Frankenstein by Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr., courtesy of the author and The Fort Lee Film Commission.