isn’t the only James Whale ’s 1931 take on Mary Shelley ’s iconic novel was beaten to the punch by the Edison Manufacturing, which in 1910 produced what a title card describes as a “liberal adaptation” of the story.The Library of Congress purchased a collection of prints in 2014 that included a nitrate print of. Alois F. Dettlaff acquired it in the 1950s and brought it with him to film festivals and monster conventions for decades; a meeting with then- AMPAS president Robert Wise in 1986 failed to persuade him to let the Academy preserve and archive it.