Comments on: Scientist to Make Bold Attempt to Revive Human Dead (Feb, 1935) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Kenneth Wright http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-1088269 Kenneth Wright Sun, 15 May 2011 00:51:19 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/#comment-1088269 In the 1930s and 1940s there was a whole cycle of eerie and morbid Hollywood chillers on the theme of reviving the dead. Many starred Boris Karloff as a mad scientist, but one that didn't was Supernatural (1933), in which another meddler in Things We Were Never Meant To Know realises Dr Cornish's ambition of being allowed to experiment on an executed criminal. It's a poor film, but the scene in which the boffin attempts to re-animate the dead body by electricity is memorably sick and strange. In popular culture, this period seems to have been the high-water-mark of interest in the subject of defeating or by-passing death by scientific or other means (spiritualism, etc). I dare say the Depression, the mass slaughter of the First World War and the 'flu pandemic, and the almost magical progress of contemporary science and medicine all had something to do with it. In the 1930s and 1940s there was a whole cycle of eerie and morbid Hollywood chillers on the theme of reviving the dead. Many starred Boris Karloff as a mad scientist, but one that didn’t was Supernatural (1933), in which another meddler in Things We Were Never Meant To Know realises Dr Cornish’s ambition of being allowed to experiment on an executed criminal. It’s a poor film, but the scene in which the boffin attempts to re-animate the dead body by electricity is memorably sick and strange.

In popular culture, this period seems to have been the high-water-mark of interest in the subject of defeating or by-passing death by scientific or other means (spiritualism, etc). I dare say the Depression, the mass slaughter of the First World War and the ‘flu pandemic, and the almost magical progress of contemporary science and medicine all had something to do with it.

]]> By: Joseph http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-1057004 Joseph Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:13:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/#comment-1057004 Ermmm (cough cough)....Zombies (cough cough). Actually, didn't they try this with some special radiation from a space probe that returned from Venus? Ermmm (cough cough)….Zombies (cough cough).
Actually, didn’t they try this with some special radiation from a space probe that returned from Venus?

]]> By: stupideverything http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-3791 stupideverything Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:51:37 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/02/scientist-to-make-bold-attempt-to-revive-human-dead/#comment-3791 [...] Craig found this site the other day, and it’s full of hilarious old articles from popular mechanics - from the 40s and 30s.  Worth wasting some time at, for sure.  For example, check this out … or even this one.  I wonder if society will look back on us in 50-60 years and think the same thing? No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> [...] [...] Craig found this site the other day, and it’s full of hilarious old articles from popular mechanics – from the 40s and 30s.  Worth wasting some time at, for sure.  For example, check this out … or even this one.  I wonder if society will look back on us in 50-60 years and think the same thing? No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> [...]

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