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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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Kustom threatened, but nothing came of it. The design/pattern of the padding was substantially different, and electronically, the head was not solid state(like Kustom), but a close knock-off of a Fender Showman. Up until a few years ago, I had an identical rig, it rocked hard, far more low end than a comparable Fender. The company mysteriously changed the name to “Earth”, ditched the tuck and roll for copies of Fender tweed(long before they brought it back), Sunn, and Peavey, before disappearing.
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Bela Lugosi’s screen test for the original Frankenstein movie according to TV’s
Svengoolie. Boris Karloff’s monster was chosen.
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No, that photo is from the actual 1915 Golem movie; it was just remarked that a version of Lugosi’s makeup resembled that somewhat…
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But then he did actually portray the monster later on, with makeup based on the Karloff precedent…
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No, that photo is from the actual 1915 Golem movie; it was just remarked that a version of Lugosi’s makeup resembled that somewhat…
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But then he did actually portray the monster later on, with makeup based on the Karloff precedent…
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Nice clarification! Svengoolie showed the photo last Saturday and tied it in to Lugosi’s screen test for the first Frankenstein.
 
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