More Metropolis footage found!!!!

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 02 Jul 2008, 23:19

http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/bg-metropolis-en

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Jul 2008, 23:33

That's pretty amazing, thanks Ivan.

Hopefully Kino will include it on their forthcoming BD.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jul 2008, 08:55

Isn't there a Masters of Cinema DVD?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Jul 2008, 12:44

This is Google, please learn how to use it.

P.S. Yes, there was a MoC release.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:11

Kino had just anounced a Blu Ray

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:13

Maybe I'll get a Blu when I go HD though is an 80 year old film really best seen on Blu? I mean how good can it actually look?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 03 Jul 2008, 16:10

Pretty damn good, given the circumstances. But the best medium for any film is the cinema

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jul 2008, 16:42

I'll hold off the Moc release then.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jul 2008, 17:53

There's a Kino SE, Eureka SE and Eureka MOC. The SE and MOC being identical except the former has no MOC banner, which is the one I have.

As Ivan has said Kino are releasing a BD though, there is no new DVD announced.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 03 Jul 2008, 18:06

grim_tales wrote:Maybe I'll get a Blu when I go HD though is an 80 year old film really best seen on Blu? I mean how good can it actually look?

Are you serious? You frequent so many forums yet you seem to take so little in.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jul 2008, 18:10

As you also post on so many forums you should have spotted Grim doesn't read the HD subforums. Why would he? He's not interested in HD yet.

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 03 Jul 2008, 19:08

I really can't believe this. I remember first seeing this film in my first college several years back and researching all of the different variations, and how (at the time) the Kino DVD was the best and most proper cut, and that well over an hour of footage had been "lost". That being said, I wasn't about to hold my breath for this footage to appear. I mean, lost footage from an 80 year old movie? I expected nothing but celluloid ashes. But, they found it intact? And randomly in Buenos Aries? How do these reels end up in all these places? Buenos Aries for Metropolis, a "chicken coop" for the Game of Death dailies footage (still confused about that), and some vault in the UK for the Superman II Donner footage. Doesn't anyone keep track of film materials anymore?

Well, if an 80 year old film can be found uncut... then where the hell is the uncut print of The Big Boss?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 03 Jul 2008, 19:10

Surley Grim read some HD stuff?

If not, well as long as the tech guys know what they are doing Grim, they can make almost anything look better (sometimes much better), even old films.

There are a few very old films on HD at the moment, and frankly some look pretty amazing from what I have seen. If they invest some cash into the HD stuff, damn they can be made to look better than even recent films.

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 03 Jul 2008, 19:20

Double post... nothing to see here... keep moving

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jul 2008, 20:24

I do read some HD stuff but like Brad says I'm not really into HD yet.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jul 2008, 21:16

Old Pang Yau wrote:Doesn't anyone keep track of film materials anymore?

I doubt it. Film stock is stored in vaults all over the world.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 03 Jul 2008, 23:33

You do realise your two sentences don't fit, don't you Brad?

The problem is that the film isn't accounted for. it may be in a huge vault but no-one has got round to cataloguing it, which means it may not be preserved in time. And so on

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jul 2008, 00:03

Ivan Drago wrote:You do realise your two sentences don't fit, don't you Brad?

How so?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Jul 2008, 15:44

According to a post on Imports Forum the new footage/cut WILL be on the Kino BD, and there will also be a DVD released on the same day as the BD.

The Digital Bits wrote:All right... we've got one last post for you today, because this just couldn't wait until Monday. We've just heard back from our friends over at Kino International. The good news is that they have officially confirmed that the newly-discovered footage from Fritz Lang's original version of Metropolis (which we mentioned yesterday) WILL be a part of the forthcoming special edition Blu-ray Disc release in 2009. What's more, the new special edition will be released on standard DVD format as well on the same day. Watch for more details on this sure-to-be-amazing release in the weeks and months ahead. We think that's just about the best news we could close out the week with, don't you?

So with that, enjoy the weekend!

http://www.theimportforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13460

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Jul 2008, 18:08

Yeah but it os from the non fact site The Digital Bits

people still visit that shithole I see.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 19:31

They post facts too

, you know what a rumour means right? They even have a rumour section, it's just that rumours.