That Time Dracula Sued Nosferatu

Kaz Rowe January 17, 2025
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I love history and I love subjecting people to my unhinged rants about it. I also make the webcomic Cunning Fire. They/them Please only use my email for serious business inquiries, thank you.

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Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/kazrowe to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed! My partner Aura just launched their new "Are you smarter than a scammer?" quiz. Take the quiz and see if you’re as savvy as you think: https://bit.ly/aurasts Everyone is talking (and discoursing) about Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, but did you know this movie was almost never made? Back in the 1920s, the widow of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, sued Nosferatu (1922) for copyright infringement and the court ordered all copies be burned. So how did this horror icon survive? Come learn with me! How to Donate to Support LA Wildfire Recovery Efforts: https://www.calfund.org/funds/wildfire-recovery-fund/ https://supportlafd.org/ https://www.lafoodbank.org/fire/ https://blackmusicactioncoalition.donorsupport.co/page/LAFIRERELIEF Care for Gaza: https://x.com/careforgaza?lang=en Donate to the PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/ Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: https://www.kazrowe.com/comics/cahun https://shop.getty.edu/products/liberated-the-radical-art-and-life-of-claude-cahun-978-1947440074 Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1003635-REG/olympus_v314060bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed.html Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t5-2tb-mu-pa2t0b-am/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Alain Silver and James Ursini Constructing the Vampire Myth in Cinema: A Short Analysis of Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), and Dracula (1958) By Yuri Garcia Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by David Skal “Foreign Films Here,” The Film Daily, February 10 1924 page 10 “Murnau Film Premiere Set,” The Film Daily, May 15, 1929 “Guild Defers Premiere,” The Film Daily, May 17, 1919 The Vampiric Film: Intermedial Incorporation in Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) by Barbara Laner Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror by Cristina Massaccesi The Authoritarian Nature of Copyright Law in Derivative Works, Or the Bloody Truth about Nosferatu by Lorena Moirón “Nosferatu and the Unholy War to Bury a Classic 100 Years Ago” by David Crow for Den of Geek https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/nosferatu-war-to-bury-classic-100-years-ago/ “How Did “Nosferatu” Make It To The U.S.?” by Lea S. For Silent-Ology https://silentology.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/how-did-nosferatu-make-it-to-the-u-s/ “Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story” by Jonathan Bailey for Plagiarism Today https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/17/dracula-vs-nosferatu-a-true-copyright-horror-story/