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Gorgeous restoration of Metropolis!!
This is something and the music’s good, too. Amazing on a big screen. Had to post since we, also, did one.
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Oh my, I’ll have to get YouTubeDL going later before this one gets nutted by the institute 😅
Moved out of Other purgatory. I mean ... it has music in it, don't it? 😉
Trippy seeing those fellas in color.
Very cool, thank you for sharing!
Good point!
That does look great. The music doesn't thrill me; too bad the old forum soundtrack can't be on it. That story doesn't get old.
You are not wrong. Some of my best work and I lost the Logic Pro file for that due to a hardware failure
That was such a good soundtrack we all did! I’m still gutted that got taken down. I never got a reply from them either when I appealed it, very rude, I thought. Lovely share @LinearLineman!
Am I the only one who thinks that this is sacrilege? I’m all for improving the quality of the film, but colorizing it doesn’t make it better for me - it’s too far away from the original.
I would like to see a loving restoration of the original, but not this.
I haven't watched it yet, just flicked through a few scenes. You might well be right, but it can put an interesting spin to see colourizations of old footage, like Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old
This video has the distinctive intertitles from Kino's The Complete Metropolis, which was released on Blu-ray back in 2010. I have that Blu-ray, and that print looks just as good, if not better. And it's in glorious black-and-white, as originally conceived and filmed.
I think it's fair to assume that they ripped the Kino Blu-ray, colorized the video track, and replaced composer Gottfried Huppert's 1927 orchestral score with this new score. Metropolis is public domain in the U.S. so they have the right to do that. However, Kino would probably argue that their version with their distinctive intertitles is no longer public domain.
Believe it or not - I never watched this or heard of it before. Well, I remember the forum project to re-score it, but didn't pay attention at the time.
What a mind-blowing film for 1927! I really want to watch it through again in black and white with the original score. I thought the score on the colorized version was good, but a cognitive distraction against a 1927 film.
It should be streaming somewhere. Though being in the public domain, there are lots of inferior prints out there. I should know, I bought a few of them over the years, starting with a VHS version.
I can certainly vouch for the quality of The Complete Metropolis Blu-ray. It's currently 50% off in the U.S. Amazon store. Here's a review of it: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Metropolis-Blu-ray/8710/#Review.
Another oldie worth checking out is Things to Come from 1936.
I watched it many years ago after seeing some of the footage from it used in the video for a Freddie Mercury solo single. It had a really awful 80s soundtrack, and I think the video was heavily edited. For years I think there was only that version and older poor-quality versions. It probably just didn’t have a decent version for people to really appreciate.
When it was eventually restored I didn’t watch it at first, and it was probably only 10 years or less back that I finally saw it. Fantastic compared to what was previously available.
Don’t tell anyone but there’s a version of ours here:
https://vimeo.com/845710879/d9dbc5e230I don’t know what’s going on with the link when I paste it so here’s a screen grab of it…
ah ha ha a code block tag worked… might just be that the video is unlisted so the media grab code on the site gets all discombobulated when I directly paste the link…
Oh great, thnx!
I compared the Internet Archive version with the Kino Blu-ray. The score is the same, so yes, that should be Gottfried Huppert's 1927 orchestral score.
The print also looks the same with the same running time, though the Internet Archive version doesn't have Kino's distinctive typeface for the intertitles. It's probably a rip of the Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray licensed for the U.K. and region 2. The Eureka and Kino Blu-rays were both released in 2010, and they would be using the same source material.
This has been on my watch list for a long time. Also, I love the anime version. Idk how similar they are but that movie has incredible animation.
Have not seen the anime version. I’ll look it up.
I had no idea there is an anime version either, but some quick research shows it was based on a 1949 manga that isn’t based on the original movie.
Thank you for that!
I understand your point but on the other hand I enjoyed this colorized version. I don't know what Fritz Lang thought but it seems he was using the best techniques he could for the time and if color (and sound) were options for him I'm guessing he would have used it. Also I'm sure he didn't want it to be thought of as some quaint old fashioned story. I felt that the colorized and upgraded quality helped show the story as something relevant now as well.
I don’t know that I like the argument that the original artist may have used modern techniques if they were available. Good art is captured at a moment in time with all the human and technology limitations of the that time and place. The struggles to produce the end result are what imbue a piece of art with the characteristics that can evoke emotional responses. Remaking them because those limitations have been overcome moves them more and more towards functional results that lose the ability to move people.
Fritz Lang may well have done things differently if he made the movie now, but it would probably not be a pioneering end result as the original was.
By all means make art with whatever tools are available, but trying to improve on an original end-result by making substantial changes will eventually obscure the original masterpiece to its detriment.
@michael_m i certainly understand where you come from. We hear the same with originalist theories about the Bible, Constitution, etc. obviously, they are not works of art, but you could apply it to Boeuf Bourgignon recipes, too. Novels are changed and turned into screenplays. In music there’s all the harpsichord pieces played on piano, or piano transcriptions of his symphonies, and, of course, that 95% of Beethoven is played on an instrument that did not exist. We can’t be sure Beethoven would have wanted that..
There is always the option to play on period instruments or to watch the b/w version of Metropolis. I feel pretty confident the director would have used color if it were available to him.
Bottom line, where is the harm, especially since it’s out of copyright in the US?
No harm, and I’m not against anyone taking something that exists in one medium and recreating it differently. All of your examples lend themselves to that. Maybe this is more of a subtle difference where I see more permanence to the film on celluloid, and similarly to specific recordings of music as opposed to composition.
It’s just not appealing to me to see movies colorized, not any more than the aural equivalent of colorization of specific recirdings would be - maybe by replacing Paul McCatney’s bass lines in Beatles songs with programmed bass guitar samples - better technology and perhaps he would have done it himself if it had been available in the 60s?
Anyway, my point was that some ‘improvements’ are not for me. If it’s a more appealing end result to others then I certainly shouldn’t have complaints. It just seems to take away rather than add for me, and as I said earlier - I’d be all for a good restoration (but without the colorization).
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I was just wondering what I was going to do tonight. We went out for dinner the last two weekends and there is nothing good at Hollywood Boulevard this weekend. Karen is spending time with her elderly lady friend tonight so I’m by myself. This looks to be very entertaining. I last saw this in college at a film festival at the student center, along with Citizen Kane. I watched a bit of the intro. Looks good. Thanks for posting.
That’s one hell if a double bill!