Bride of Frankenstein
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1:05:01
an early electronic instrument.
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Mere days before production
started on January 2nd,

1:05:06
Whale and Waxman met
at a Christmas party.

1:05:08
Whale explained that nothing in the story
would be resolved, everyone would die,

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and offered Waxman the job if he would
give him an unresolved musical score.

1:05:18
The orchestra for the Bride sessions was
conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff.

1:05:22
Session photographs show 32 players
on the recording stage,

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14 of whom are violinists.
1:05:27
Orchestration sheets reveal that at its
largest the orchestra had 40 players.

1:05:33
Waxman music appeared memorably
in Universal's Flash Gordon serials.

1:05:38
Cues from his score have been recorded
by Charles Gerhardt and Erich Kunzel.

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In 1993, Kenneth Alwyn conducted
the first substantial recording

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of the nearly complete score.
1:05:54
Waxman's use of timpani here echoes
the heartbeat of the monster bride.

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Boris's monster in the first film
looked like triage at an auto wreck,

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his face and torso swathed in bandages,
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naked legs truncating
in size 16, triple-E foot splints.

1:06:11
The script called for the mate
to give the effect of an Egyptian mummy,

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and this was realised exactly,
including leg bindings.


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