March 1, 1936 –
The Warner Bros. Pictures horror film The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff and Edmund Gwenn, opened in New York City, on this date.
The “glass heart” machine used to revive Karloff’s dead character was said to be “nearly a prefect replica” of an actual perfusion pump- a device designed to keep organs alive outside an organism’s body- which had been built by Charles Lindbergh, when the legendary pilot and engineer was working with a Nobel-winning scientist at New York’s Rockefeller Institute research labs in the mid-1930s.
The Haus of Dcaligari 