Metropolis lost footage found

[dbclemons]

Three reels of the silent film were discovered recently in Argentina apparantly including about 25 mintutes that haven't been seen since it was first released in 1927.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifes...44303820080703

I love this film. Can't wait to see the new footage.

[davi]

this news is too fucking awesome!

i guess it's a good thing i didnt ask for metropolois for my birthday, since im sure they will release a new version with this material!

[Musselfarmstudios]

Do you know when they are going to release DVD's with this new footage inserted?

[Prometheus|ANJ]

I wonder what the copyright status for these lost scenes are. I'm sure they'll be restored and sold somehow. I have Metropolis in my DVD collection. It has some amazing-surreal-sexy scenes, like Maria dancing.

[dbclemons]

From what I've read, the footage is not in very good condition, but viewable. The most recently restored film used subtitles for the missing pieces based on the original script, so the new pieces should fit right in, apparantly there's still one short scene missing.

Here's a German TV segment where you can see some of the footage.

[Aly Fell]

The footage requires quite a bit of restoration. There's some viewable on Aintitcool.

METROPOLIS

dbclemons - Edit:we overlapped.

Edit edit: I watched The Island the other day. Some of the scenes of the city in that look to be almost duplicates of Metropolis.

[dbclemons]

Apparantly Kino is planning on releasing a Blu-Ray and DVD copy in 2009 that should include the new footage. Yipee!

[oracrest]

This is awesome. I was just debating buying the Kona version with those missing scenes at least explained in text where they are missing.

Great movie!