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Metropolis...original uncut version?
I got this from Wikipedia and wanted to know if anyone out there has any more information on this.
"Note: There are multiple versions of Metropolis. The original, longest version remained unseen except for its initial premiere and release in Germany in 1927. Of this version, a quarter of the footage was believed to be permanently lost, but the German paper Die Zeit reported on 2 July 2008 that a film museum in Argentina had turned up what scholars believe to be a print of Metropolis containing the missing footage. The American version, shortened and re-written by Channing Pollock, is the most commonly known and discussed."
The version I have from Kino Video is 2 hours 4 minutes long. If a quarter of the footage was missing, this means that there is around 30 minutes of footage never seen outside of its' initial release in Germany back in 1927.
If any of this is true it would be very exciting.
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