Back around 1978-1980, if my memory for dates is functioning properly, I did some acting as part of a local community theater group in Brooklyn, the Greenpoint Repertory Company. Over the course of about two years, when life seemed to hold more spare time, I played Mookie Maguggins in “Dirty Works at the Crossroads,” Boris Kolenkhov in “You Can’t Take It With You,” Lennie Small in “Of Mice and Men,” and the Creature in “Frankenstein.”

Of these performances, very little evidence survives, which, after all, is one of the beautiful and poignant things about theater. You had to be there. I only have a couple of photographs from any of those productions, since it was a pre-digital time. But thanks to my brother, Lee, who was attending film school in 1979, something more remains of “Frankenstein.”

Whether for homework or just for the heck of it, he made a Super 8 film which captures a few snippets of performance, plus a sped-up sequence as I applied my make-up. Lee just found that film and transferred it to DVD, and watching it took me way back. (Thanks, Lee!) So now I’m inflicting it on you.

The picture and sound have deteriorated a bit over the past three decades the film spent in the back of a closet, leading to some distortion in sound and an occasional blip in the picture, but I’m sharing it here anyway, because, well, I can’t resist. Mary Shelley was played by Anne Pasquale, Henry Clerval by Allan Grosman, and Victor Frankenstein by Michael LaVeglia.

The film was around 13 minutes long, so I needed to break it into two parts due to YouTube’s posting requirements.