Animated and directed by John S. Carolan this is a short film version of Dracula that crams the story into just 6-minutes. Whilst the writing credits look both to Carolan and Bram Stoker (or Stocker as the title page suggests!), the broad chops of the story owe something to Deane and Balderston respectively.
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The animation is very basic, using silhouettes and intertitles as opposed to voice actors – this decision fits well with a silhouette of Dracula who owes much to the Orlock incarnation. The intertitles are very simplistically written as befits the curtailed and sparse narrative. What probably makes this for me was the use of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, which moves the film along nicely. The imdb page is here.
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