Hallelujah! Missing METROPOLIS scenes found!

July 3rd, 2008 at 03:27pm Will Pfeifer

Film geeks all over the world are salivating over the fact that missing scenes from Fritz Lang’s silent science fiction masterpiece METROPOLIS – scenes long thought lost forever — have apparently been found by ZEITmagazin (a German publication, in case you didn’t guess). Here’s an image of a a spy character named “Slim” suspiciously reading his copy of The Metropolis Courier.

You can read the whole story in the online (and English) version of ZEITmagazin here. No word on if and when this footage will be incorporated into a new release of the movie (obviously, there’s plenty of restoration work to be done), but it’s a pretty exciting discovery nonetheless. Now let’s find those missing reels from THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS!

Special thanks, by the way, for Movie Man pals Dan and Galen for bringing this to my attention!

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