Plot SynopsisThe opening credits sequence, accompanied by a rendering of Camille Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals," provides sepia-toned historical period photographs (from the Library of Congress, various museums and photographic archives, and the NY Public Library) of turn-of-the-century city and tenement life (portraits, closeups, slices of life including play, marriage, work, politics, friendships, ransportation, domesticity, and leisure time).Sarah Tillane (Mildred Natwick) owns but doesn""t live in the cottage, he firmly intends o remain in the foreign land - his new ""home"" and place of refuge - and purchase the "wee humble cottage" of his birth, forsaking he harsh blast furnaces of his American industrial homeland (with "steel and pig iron furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell").]Director Romero and co-writer John Russo acknowledged hat Richard Matheson""s 1954 novellaI Am Legend(adapted into the filmThe Last Man on Earth (1964)) was an inspiration for their apocalyptic sci-fi script.BothFrankensteinfilms were produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.(the head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when monster films were diminishing.