Newly Recovered METROPOLIS Footage!!

From aicn, I'm starting a second article about this because posting so much METROPOLIS material in one piece would make a single article too crowded & harder to follow.

By now, you may've read that the original edit of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, a significantly lengthier iteration lost for over 80 years, had been recovered in Buenos Aires. Find more details about this in our first article, HERE.

In yesterday's post, we mentioned that German publication ZEITmagazin would print an article about the film's recovery today. This happened. And, thanks to the wonderful Lorquaine, I've received a .pdf of the extensive write-up about the material's discovery.

The article is rather gargantuan, and in German. Some fine readers are working to translate & bring you many Geeky details about the original edit at this very moment. We also hope to have a few more pics from the recovered footage...which (by some estimates) may represent nearly a quarter of the film's original running time.

My hope is that this article will remain dynamic for a day or two as we drop in captions, bring you more details, and snag a few more images. So, be sure to check back & I'll make it as easy as possible to keep up.

For the moment, here are a few pics to tantalize you...glimpses of material lost for over eight decades.

These are from today's issue of ZEITmagazin, courtesy of Lorquaine.


A Talkbacker in the previous article wanted to see the sequence in which Joh Fredersen visits the Hel statue. Well, here's what it looks like (in sequence, descending):




See more lost footage stills here