Great news for fans of robot history and cinema history:
Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier travelled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts and editors from ZEITmagazin. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. After examining the film the three experts are certain: The find from Buenos Aires is a real treasure, a worldwide sensation. Metropolis, the most important silent film in German history, can from this day on be considered to have been rediscovered. (Zeit Online)
Metropolis is truly stunning — the architecture of the futuristic city scenes was a big influence on Blade Runner, and on pretty much every science fiction film since. Let’s hope someone with deep pockets finances a thorough restoration of the movie.
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Hurrah! This IS a great discovery! The best version I've seen is Kino International's brilliant restoration of the movie to DVD... it includes textual intertitles that discuss what is assumed to be missing from the film... I hope they put out a new restored edition with this material!