115: Where the Monsters Came From (Bela & Boris Part 1)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were two middle-aged, foreign, struggling actors who became huge stars thanks to Dracula and Frankenstein, the first two of a trend of monster movie hits released by Universal Studios during the 1930s. This season, we’ll discuss their parallel but very different lives and careers. Today, we’ll start by exploring where each man came from, what they were doing before they got to Universal, and why Universal began making monster movies in the first place.

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0:00.0	Harai Harai Harai Harai Harai Harai Harai Harai Harai
0:07.5	What is it?
0:09.0	Just a kid
0:10.9	What's wrong?
0:14.3	Harai Harai Harai Harai
0:21.1	One
0:25.3	They must be one of a kind tales.
0:29.0	Two, they must be believable in characterization.
0:33.4	Three, they must have unusual special effects.
0:38.2	Four, besides the major monster,
0:41.2	there must be a secondary character of weird appearance,
0:45.1	such as Igor.
0:47.2	Five, they must confess right off that the show is a horror film.
0:53.8	Six, they must include a Pish-tush character
0:57.2	to express the normal skepticism of the audience.
1:00.8	Seven, they must be based on some pseudoscientific premise.
1:15.4	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This,
1:21.4	the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret
1:25.5	and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century,
1:31.2	part of the Panoply Network.
1:34.8	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
1:37.9	And what you've just heard were the rules
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