Skin color of Frankenstein's monster

[dovel100]

Getting ready to work on a vinyl kit of Frankenstein's monster.
Shelly's novel describes it as yellow but I want to paint it accurate to the 1931 Universal film make-up.
Descriptions I've found on the interwebs say it was either blue, or green or flesh colored.

Any of you cats ever come across a credible reference to what the make-up looked like "in real life?"

 

[modelcitizen]

green so it would look deathly pale grey in black and white photography

 

[3Dsf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uvxLaLjhJU

Not the first film though.

 

[dovel100]

I'm starting to think green may be the way to go. There was another reference on the CLASSIC HORROR FILM board that mentioned "greenish metallic" but I couldn't quite get my head around the metallic part.

 

[dovel100]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uvxLaLjhJU

Not the first film though.

Thanks nkg.
Not the first movie but if they had plans to shoot that one in color and went with green that may be a big hint that the original was also green.

 

[Jaitea]

I'm not sure if these photos have been colourised;



J

 

[dovel100]

green so it would look deathly pale grey in black and white photography

Thaks modelcitizen this is about as close to a consensus as I can find.

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I'm not sure if these photos have been colourised;

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J

Thanks J
Not sure If I could tell colorized or not.

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I'm not sure if these photos have been colourised;

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Thanks J
I don't know if I can tell the difference.
Maybe there's a photoshop jock in here that can tell.

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green so it would look deathly pale grey in black and white photography

Now that you mention it. Deathly pale may be the way to go. Maybe I'll go for what they intended.

 

[modelcitizen]

first pic colorized. they tended to color all flesh the same hue.
mrs. laughton there was never that color lol.