{
  "title": "THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI",
  "category": "[MOTION-PICTURE]",
  "article": "[Times] “The grim story had to be presented by sound alone instead of by pictures, and it says\nmuch for the production that a good deal of the atmosphere of the original was preserved. It was,\nif anything, more frightening than the film, possibly because the cubist scenery could not be\nsuggested, and the whole vivid mad nightmare became more real in consequence.\n“The treatment of the story was brilliantly successful : Mr. Farquharson as Dr. Caligari was evil\npersonified, but it is doubtful if the end was clear to those who did not know the story of the film.”\n[Horace Richards, Radio Times] “Did you listen to Felix Felton’s recent production of The\nCabinet of Dr. Caligari? And did you shiver appropriately? I’m afraid that many of us who\nremember this grim essay in the macabre as a film—with Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt—were\nsomewhat disappointed.\n“It was not that the production was not thoroughly interesting and worthwhile. It was simply\nthat throughout I had a sensation of something missing; and that which was missing was mainly\nan eerie chill. Even the highspot when the cabinet was opened lacked the malignant\ngruesomeness that was achieved on the screen.”",
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  "chronology": "THE EXPERIMENTAL HOUR (NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON—BBC)\n[Tuesday—10:15-11:00 PM]\nApril 12, 1938\n“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”\n[“…The dramatic experiment to be made to-night is the turning of the\nfirst of all the horror films into a radio play…”]\nSCRIPT: T. E. Mayer, Duncan Melvin (adapted from the 1919 film Das Kabinett\ndes Dr. Caligari, scripted by Carl Mayer and HJ).\nPERSONNEL: Felix Felton (producer).\nCAST: Kenneth Ball (Alan), Robert Farquharson (Dr. Caligari), Thea Holme\n(Jane), Geoffrey Keen (Francis), Harold Scott (Dr. Sonov), William Trent\n(Caesare).\n[RADIO TIMES: “…Also circus men, doctors, mental patients, etc., played by\nBryan Powley, A. Harding Steerman, Frank Thornton-Bassett, Renee de Vaux…”]",
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