During the silent era, novel adaptations abounded. Following Shelley’s Frankenstein, there was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and Vern’s 2000 Leagues Under the Sea, among others. They were aptly made for the time and served as references for later remakes. Evidentially the most noteworthy movie of the era, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis came to Germany with impressive special effects and direction and later spread throughout Europe and to North America.

The invention of sound in films lent sci-fi a new sense through which it could bring us new wonders. Things to Come, H.G. Wells’ adaptation of his own 1933 essay, The Shape of Thing

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