Classic Movie Magic

The Modern Mechanix Blog has scanned and reprinted an article from the February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix, titled Makeup Secrets of Movie Horror Pictures, featuring the behind-the-scenes makeup effects for the Universal monsters, including photos of Karloff having his Mummy face application put on by Jack Pierce. It’s an awesome historical document. I particularly love the subhead “Movie-goers Love Weird Characters - ‘Frankenstein’ a Big Money-maker.” Oh, those weird characters…

See it here!