Lost Footage of "Metropolis" Found

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 4, 2008 @08:12AM from the working-as-intended-now dept.

ram.loss writes "According to a Reuters article, a long version of Metropolis has been found at a cinema museum in Argentina, by a newly appointed archivist. The reels have been authenticated by the Murnau foundation at Germany. 'Although estimates of its original length vary depending on the speed at which it is shown, Possmann said "Metropolis" was conceived as a film lasting just over 2-1/2 hours. Around 20 to 25 minutes of footage that fleshes out secondary characters and sheds light on the plot would be added to the film pending restoration, he added. But around 5 minutes of the original were probably still missing, he said.'"

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Re:I have nothing insightful to add but by smittyoneeach · 2008-07-04 09:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Who is pleased easily is pleased often.

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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Re:Good lord by smittyoneeach · 2008-07-04 09:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But steer clear of The Saragossa Manuscript
If Quentin Tarantino ever gets the idea of doing a recursive-descent plot, I predict an immanentization of the eschaton.

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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear