Edison's lost Frankenstein survived in a bedroom

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You’d expect the only surviving copy of Thomas Edison’s 1910 'Frankenstein' to be guarded in a climate-controlled vault. Instead, it was sitting in the bedroom of a Wisconsin archivist named Alois F. Dettlaff for decades. He treated the highly flammable silver nitrate with the kind of blatant disregard that defies literal cartoon physics equations, somehow preserving a holy grail of horror cinema just by casually tossing an explosive fire hazard into a cupboard.