{"id":34718,"date":"2023-12-09T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34718"},"modified":"2023-12-09T06:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:45:52","slug":"rare-son-of-frankenstein-make-up-test-video-with-boris-karloff-jack-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34718","title":{"rendered":"Rare &#8220;Son of Frankenstein&#8221; Make-Up Test Video with Boris Karloff &#038; Jack Pierce!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z120923sonfrankenstein_colortest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a 1939 <em>Son of Frankenstein<\/em> color test, <strong>Boris Karloff<\/strong> clowns in full monster gear, strangling legendary makeup artist <strong>Jack Pierce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the documentary <em>Universal Horror<\/em> (1998), <em>Son of Frankenstein<\/em> was intended to be shot in color and some Technicolor test footage was filmed, but for artistic or budgetary reasons the plan was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No color test footage is known to survive, but this rare clip from a Kodachrome color home movie filmed at the studio shows <strong>Boris Karloff<\/strong> in the green monster makeup, clowning around with makeup artist <strong>Jack Pierce<\/strong> (Janus Piccoula).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uvxLaLjhJU?si=SDMHetqiUE1R0Tzz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a 1939 Son of Frankenstein color test, Boris Karloff clowns in full monster gear, strangling legendary makeup artist Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34719,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/34719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}