n a time when mov­ing pic­tures were con­sid­ered new and vul­gar com­pared to the re­spectable plays of the state Edi­son Stu­dios un­der­took the chal­lenge to com­mit the first mov­ing pic­ture ver­sion of Mary Shel­ley's Franken­stein. The in­tent of this ver­sion, as stat­ed in The Edi­son Kine­togram was, "to con­cen­trate its en­deav­ors up­on the mys­tic and psy­cho­log­i­cal prob­lems," of Shel­ley's "weird tale." This in­no­va­tive film, be­lieved to be the first Amer­i­can hor­ror movie, was lost from mem­o­ry un­til a se­ries of serendip­i­tous in­ci­dents led to the dis­cov­ery of the lone sur­viv­ing reel from the hands of a col­lec­tor in the 1970's.

This new score by Life To­ward Twi­light has been com­posed in homage to those ear­ly pi­o­neers of cin­e­ma who have trans­formed this once "vul­gar" medi­um to the art form it is to­day.