Metropolis

The Canberra Collection

ScreenSound Australia (National Film & Sound Archives)

Introduction

ScreenSound Australia, formerly the National Film and Sound Archive , Canberra, holds a collection of Metropolis-related material which includes two release prints of the film (one tinted), a trailer from 1939, over 200 images of the production within the Taussig Collection, a copy of the printed orchestra score to accompany the 1927 Channing Pollock version, and additional items such as reviews, etc. The Canberra collection is briefly described below, under the following headings:

Harry Davidson Print, 1927
James Pearson Print, 1951
Metropolis Trailer, 1951
Taussig Photograph Collection
Score
Additional items

Item 1: Harry Davidson Print

Original silent release print - 35mm negative, 8,500 feet, tinted, no sound. NFSA item number 17332. Transferred to videotape at a projection speed of 16 fps. Approximate running time - 2hrs 24mins 15secs. This copy of Metropolis is unique in that it contains the original tinting as applied to the film during its initial release. It is also an original version - though slightly edited - of the Channing Pollock version of the film.

Below is a list of the intertitle text as contained on this original release print. The intertitle text is given on the right hand side of the table, with the time (in hours:minutes:seconds) on the left hand side. The quality of the film is good, though scratched as a result of use during its initial release. The video transfer process is of high quality, therefore there is a minimum amount of cropping of the edges of the original 35mm silent negative. This gives the image an almost panoramic - widescreen feel, especially when compared to the severely cropped and low contrast editions of the film available via modern VHS videotape and DVD. It appears from the viewing of the video copy that this version of the film was as originally edited by Channing Pollock in 1927. A number of scenes have obviously been edited out in addition to Pollock's work, most noticeably the excising of Maria's dance at Yosiwara's. Missing also are the normal Hel / George / Josephat / destruction of Moloch episodes which no longer exist in any surviving print. The excision of the Maria dance sequence is possibly due to the strong censorship which existed in Australia at the time of the film's release in 1928.

This original release print is also tinted with colours such as sepia, yellow-brown, purple and blue. The tints as applied to various sections of the film are also listed in the table below. All text in the table is as contained on the intertitles; text in square brackets thus: [....] is editorial and descriptive comment by the compiler of this site.

Time	Harry Davidson Print - Intertitles
0.00.00	Adapted by Channing Pollock
0.00.08	An UFA Master Production Directed by Fritz Lang Architecture and Settings: Otto Hunte, Eric Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht Photography: Karl Freund, Günther Rittau
	Metropolis From a Story by Thea von Harbou
0.00.30	Cast John Masterman ...... Alfred Abel Eric, his son ..... Gustav Froelich Rotwang ..... Rudolf Klein-Rogge Mary ..... Brigette Helm Joseph ..... Theodor Loos Number 7 ..... Heinrich George
0.01.02	We live in a world of material achievement
0.01.30	Our generation has seen great strides in Science ... Innovation ... Mechanical Proficiency.
0.01.40	We measure the distance to a star a billion miles away ... but have our aspirations lifted themselves nearer to the stars?
0.02.05	Our inventions turn out millions of luxuries ... all alike ... made by millions of men we are making more and more alike
0.02.30	We have created amazing machines ... and used them to destroy our fellow men.
0.02.50	But what of our hearts and minds?
0.02.55	Where are we going?
0.03.00	Shall we come to a reality like this visioned city of the future?
	[Metropolis cityscape introductory graphic]
0.03.10	[Machines at work...]
0.04.15	[Clock and machines]
0.04.30	[Whistle, signifying change of shift]
0.04.45	Shift
	[Men walking through tunnels at change of shift, to shaft '219'. Going down shaft]
0.06.30	Down under the earth lay the workmen's city
0.07.30	[Workers arrive at bottom, shaft 716; exit on to town square, past gong monument]
0.08.30	As deep as the workmen's city lay under ground, so high above it towered the Masterman Stadium - gift of John Masterman the richest man in Metropolis.
0.08.45	[Masterman Stadium]
0.09.30	But athletics were not the only diversions of gilded youth in Metropolis.
0.09.40	[Gardens of Pleasure]
0.11.00	[Fountain - Freder at play. 0.11.20 Maria and children enter through doors]
0.11.30	Every day, a little party of workmen's children were given an hour alongside the boundaries of their homes ... and, today, their guide had opened an unfamiliar door.
0.11.50	[Maria starring at people in Eternal Gardens]
0.12.20	Maria: "Look, children - these are your brothers - your sisters!"
0.12.35	Maria: "Look"
0.12.40	Maria: "These are your brothers - your sisters"
	[Maria starring at Freder. Men moved in to move the group on. Freder walks off with the girls; then stars, clutching his heart]
0.14.05	[Maria and kids leave. Doors close. Freder follows and talks with Majordomo]
0.14.50	Freder: "Who was that?"
0.14.55	Majordomo: "No one who could possibly interest the son of John Masterman - she comes from the workmen's homes."
0.15.15	Eric had often thought of the workmen who toiled in the depths - had wondered how they lived - and why nobody seemed to care.
	[Eric thinks, looks around the Gardens ... 0.16.10 follows Maria through doors]
0.16.20	As mysteriously as she appeared so she had vanished - and Eric, in his futile search, came on the threshold of a strange world.
0.17.10	[Freder encounters Moloch machine. Gauges rising. Explosion of Moloch machine 0.19.10 / Transformation of Moloch machine 0.19.35]
0.19.55	In these hungry machines, Eric saw that ancient God into whose fiery mouth the Phoenicians drove their human sacrifices.
	[Workers sacrificed to the machine / 0.20.55 Transformation back to machine / 0.21.50 workers carrying off the injured. Freder runs out to street]
0.22.55	Freder: "To my Father"
0.24.30	[Streetscape, city - Joh Fredersen's office]
0.24.30	John Masterman - Brain of Metropolis
	[Joh Fredersen is dictating / view of stressed workers in office / Joseph turns machines off and talks to Freder 0.25.15, they hug each other. Joh Fredersen sees this - look of jealousy on his face. Freder talks to his father of the Moloch explosion.]
0.26.55	Joh Fredersen: "Such accidents will occur."
0.27.17	[Joh begins to blame Joseph - moves towards him, stern stare, hands in pockets]
0.27.40	John Fredersen: "Why was my son permitted to go into the machine rooms?"
	[Joh pushes Freder away when he pleads for compassion]
0.28.20	Joh: "What do these men matter to you, Eric?"
0.28.30	Freder: "They are my brothers."
0.28.50	Freder: "Their hands built your city"
	[Joh dismisses his workers so they will not hear the conversation between him and his son]
0.29.00	Joh: "There are millions of hands, my son. Millions of men. Cogs on a wheel that cannot turn without a driving power."
	[Joh tries to convince Freder, but his son pushes him back and will not be stood over]
0.30.25	Joh: "Nobody is important except the brain, and what it creates - Efficiency - which, in turn, has created all the wealth of the world."
0.30.50	Freder: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the World - and lose his Soul?"
0.31.05	Joh: "Isn't that a quotation from some ancient religion?"
0.31.45	Freder: "Throughout history we have seen that Efficiency - without a soul - has led to War - Revolution - Chaos - and Destruction!"
0.32.10	Freder: "For centuries we have been building a civilisation of Gold and Steel! What has it given us? Peace? Understanding? Happiness?"
	[Kettelhut images of the city of Metropolis]
0.32.50	Freder: "Has it got us nearer God?"
0.33.00	Joh: "God is Power!"
	[View of workers in lifts]
0.33.20	Freder: "God is Love!"
	[Joh smiles mockingly at his son / No.7 is announced 0.33.40 / Joh closes curtains to mask view of Metropolis from above]
0.34.05	Joseph: "Number 7"
	[Joh sits at desk, hand in jacket ?gun at ready / No.7 moves hesitatingly towards Joh, has difficulty uttering any words]
0.34.45	Number 7: "More of those plans, Mr. Masterman."
	[Joh looks sternly at Joseph]
0.35.50	Number 7: "I found them in the pockets of two men who were killed to-day at the 'M' machine."
0.36.20	Joh [to Joseph]: "Twice you have failed me. My son is admitted into the machine rooms, and Number 7 - not you - brings me those plans."
0.36.20	[Joseph sweats as Joh confronts him]
0.37.10	Joh: "The G-Bank will pay you the balance of your salary."
	[Freder stoops like the workers as his father sack his assistant; Joseph is shattered and leaves]
0.38.40	Freder: "Is that fair reward - for one who has faithfully served you -?"
	[Joh shrugs his shoulders - a look of hatred appears on Freder's face]
0.39.40	[Joseph in stairwell pulls out a gun; Joh calls his man servant Slim in; Freder leaves office and stops Joseph from killing himself on stairwell]
0.40.10	Freder: "Will you help me, Joseph?"
0.40.40	Freder: "I am going to prove to my father that the world is not made for one man - nor for a thousand - but for all Mankind."
	[Freder returns to his father]
0.41.40	Freder: "I will not live any longer on the sweat of other men."
0.42.00	Joh [to Slim]: "My son has some strange ideas - see that no harm befalls him."
0.42.50	[Freder goes down to Level V. Smoke, heat. Helps George 11811 at Paternoster machine]
0.44.25	George: "The machine! - There must be somebody at the machine!"
0.44.30	Freder: "There shall be somebody at the machine!"
	[Freder takes George's place at machine. George scene at Yoshiwara cut; also scene at Joseph's flat is cut. Cut to view of Rotwang's house]
0.44.55	Dwarfed by the mighty towers of steel and stone, a strange house stood in the heart of Metropolis - a relic of the dim, forgotten, past.
0.45.30	The man who lived there - Rotwang - had worked thirty years to bring true the great dream of John Masterman.
0.45.45	The dream that it might be possible to go a step beyond making machines of men - by making men of machines.
0.46.30	Rotwang's Servant: "John Masterman"
	[Rotwang / Freder at machine / George]
0.47.30	[Rotwang and Joh Fredersen confrontation - HEL scene cut]
0.47.40	Rotwang: "My work is done!"
0.47.45	Rotwang: "A machine that can be made to look like a man - or a woman - but never tires - never makes a mistake -!"
0.48.05	Rotwang: "Soon we shall do without men!"
	[Rotwang lab / Robot 0.49.00]
0.51.20	Rotwang: "Isn't is worth the loss of a hand?"
0.51.40	Rotwang: "Another day's work, and no one will be able to distinguish our machine from a human being!"
0.51.50	Rotwang: "It lacks but one thing - a soul!"
0.52.05	Joh: "It is better without one."
0.52.15	Rotwang: "We must give it a name."
0.52.30	Joh: "Call it Efficiency."
	[Freder at machine; back to Joh in Rotwang's office]
0.52.55	Joh: "Can you decipher these plans, which, every now and then are found in the pockets of my workmen?"
	[Freder finds copy of plans]
0.53.55	Worker: "At two - after the change of shift."
0.54.30	[Joh looks at his 12 hr watch - it is 1pm / Freder at machine nears ends of shift]
0.56.00	Freder: "Father! Father! Will ten hours never end!"
	[Whilstle; Freder exhausted]
0.56.40	Rotwang: "It's a plan of the ancient Catacombs."
0.57.45	Joh: "I should very much like to find out what my workmen have to do with the Catacombs."
1.00.20	[Maria in catacombs preaching]
1.02.50	Maria: "To-day I am going to tell you / the legend / of the building / of the Tower of Babel..."
	[graphic]
1.03.15	Maria: "Let us build a tower that reaches to the stars"
1.03.25	Maria: "And let us write upon the top of the tower, 'Great is the World, and its Creator, and great is Man!"
1.04.05	Maria: "But the minds that conceived the Tower of Babel could not build the Tower of Babel - so they hired hands for wages."
1.04.45	Maria: "The hands that built Babel knew nothing of the dream of which it was born."
1.05.05	Maria: "And the minds that conceived Babel cared nothing for the hands that built it."
	[Babel graphic, blood]
1.05.45	Maria: "Although speaking the same language, the people did not understand each other."
1.06.10	Maria: "One's hymn of praise became the other's curse."
1.06.25	[graphic of destroyed tower, with English logo on top]
1.06.40	Maria: "Brain and Hands need a Mediator."
1.06.45	Maria: "The Mediator between Brains and Hands must be the Heart."
1.07.30	Worker: "And where is our mediator, Mary?"
1.08.00	Maria: "Wait for him. He is sure to come."
1.08.30	Worker: "We shall wait ... but not much longer."
	[Rotwang and Joh spy on meeting from above]
1.08.50	Joh: "Rotwang, give our machine the face and body of this woman."
1.09.10	Joh: "Keep the girl in your..., while her image preaches my will to the workmen."
1.09.40	Rotwang: "Leave me now, John Masterman. As you command - so shall it be."
	[Freder and Maria - she kisses him on cheek]
1.13.40	Maria: "Tomorrow ... in the Cathedral."
	[Freder kisses Maria on lips / 1.14.40 Freder departs]
1.15.00	[Rotwang chases Maria in Catacombs; she is terrified]
1.19.45	The next day, while Eric was on his way to the Cathedral for the appointed meeting with Mary -
	[Maria in Rotwang's room; Freder walking in the street]
1.21.00	Rotwang: "Now I am ready for you!"
	[Maria struggles with Rotwang; 1.22.30 Freder enters Rotwang's house]
1.25.55	Freder: "Mary!"
1.26.35	Freder: "Mary!"
1.26.40	Freder: "MARY!"
1.26.45	[Maria in transformation machine; 1.27.40 laboratory; 1.28.30 Robot transformation process]
1.30.40	Rotwang's machine had achieved its purpose. It had copied Mary's face and form without harm to her - yet even had he willed it - he could not transfer her soul.
	[Freder trapped, then freed. He rushes to confront Rotwang]
1.32.15	Freder: "Where is Mary?"
1.32.20	Rotwang: "She has gone to your father."
1.32.45	Rotwang: "She belongs to your father."
1.33.30	Joh: "Preach to them Duty ... Humility ... Obedience to their Masters."
	[Freder sees Mary in his father's arms; he freaks out; 1.34.35 in bed]
1.34.50	Doctor: "The crisis is passed. He will soon recover."
	[Evil Maria Yoshiwara dance scene and 7 Deadly Sins cut]
1.35.45	[Freder back in apartment; Joseph visits]
1.36.15	Joseph: "I have come to tell you of the strange things that are happening -"
1.36.30	Joseph: "On the day on which you were taken ill - "
	[Maria as vamp; throws off garter - fight]
1.37.20	Joseph: " - Men who had once been the best of friends, quarreled and fought for this woman."
	[Duel]
1.37.40	Joseph: " - and others - "
	[Suicide]
1.38.00	Joseph: "And this woman, in whose wake follows every sin - "
	Joseph: " - is Mary!"
1.38.30	Joseph: "To the workers she preaches a new doctrine - rebellion! She bids them destroy the city - its creator - and you!"
1.38.45	Freder: "I will see for myself."
1.39.05	But Mary, unchanged and unharmed by her terrifying experience, was still a prisoner in Rotwang's house.
1.39.35	Rotwang: "This thing that bears your image has been commanded to go among the workers and counsel endurance."
1.40.10	Rotwang: "But she is only a machine - made to obey my will. While my power holds, she will do so."
1.40.35	Rotwang: "But already I feel I have lost that power, and I am fearful of the consequences."
1.40.55	Rotwang: "A machine without a soul has been known to destroy its creator!"
	[Evil Maria preaches to workers]
1.42.15	Evil Maria: "You have waited long enough!"
1.42.30	Evil Maria: "Whose labours have built Metropolis?"
1.42.30	Evil Maria: "Whose hands work the machines?"
1.43.05	Evil Maria: "Whose hands work the machines?"
1.43.10	Evil Maria: "Whose sweat oils the machines?"
1.43.15	Evil Maria: "Fools! Fools! Why should you continue to slave!"
1.43.30	Evil Maria: "Destroy the machines!"
1.43.50	Freder: "You are not Mary!"
1.43.55	Freder: "YOU-ARE-NOT-MARY!"
1.44.20	Freder: "Mary preaches peace! ... This woman is not Mary!"
1.44.30	Worker: "This man is John Masterman's son!"
1.44.40	Worker: "Kill him!"
1.45.25	Worker: "We'll show John Masterman who rules Metropolis!"
	[Workers attack Freder; George defends him and is stabbed and killed]
1.46.25	George: "It was my duty to my brother."
	[Workers storm the lifts]
1.49.10	Not a man - not a woman left behind!
	[Children left alone / water and breaking walls/ 1.50.00 people destroying machines/ HM2 1.50.10]
1.50.45	Number 7: "They are destroying everything!"
1.50.55	Number 7: "What shall I do?"
1.51.00	Joh: "Do what you can to hold them. Reason with them. Capture that girl!"
1.51.40	Number 7: "Listen to me - you fools. If you smash this machine, your homes will be flooded!"
1.53.40	The real Mary escapes.
	[Maria goes from Rotwang's house to lift 717]
	[Destruction of machines / flooding / elevators / flood / gong / Joseph and Freder climb brick walls / flood]
2.00.35	Joseph: "Get them away from here. Make for the air shafts!"
2.00.01	[Joh watches lights of Metropolis / they go off 2.02.32]
2.02.40	Servant: "Just before the reservoir burst, your son was seen descending into the workmen's city."
2.04.25	Joh: "Only one thing matters now; where is my son?"
2.04.30	Servant: "Tomorrow thousands will be asking - Where is my son?"
2.05.10	Freder: "I'll take the children to my father's house. Tell their mothers, Mary - then join me at the cathedral."
2.07.10	Number 7: "Where are your children?"
2.07.30	Number 7: "Your houses are flooded! Where are your children!!"
2.07.50	Number 7: "Who told you to smash the machines?"
2.08.00	Woman: "The witch is to blame!"
2.08.20	Number 7: "Burn the witch!"
2.08.35	Triumphant in her victory over mortal will, the false Mary, in wild abandon, turns from riot to revelry.
2.10.35	Freder: "They must have caught her on her way back to the Cathedral!"
2.13.40	His worst fears now a grim reality, Rotwang realised that if the mob ever found the real Mary, they would destroy him as a betrayer.
2.15.30	[Rotwang tries to capture Mary near Cathedral bell]
2.16.30	Number 7: "That is the thing you have worshipped!"
2.18.15	Number 7: "Where are our children?"
2.18.35	Joseph: "They are saved! They are in his father's house."
2.19.00	Joh: "God save my son!"
2.22.40	Maria: "Brain and Hands want to come together - but they have not the Heart. You - must show them the way."
2.23.10	Maria: "Remember - always - that neither of you can do without the other -"
2.23.25	Maria: "- that Brain and Hands are Partners!"
2.24.00	Mediator between Brain and Hands must be the Heart.
	[Graphic]
2.24.15	Metropolis
	The End

Time	Harry Davidson Print - Original Tints
0.00.00	Black and white (B/W) - Opening title sequence
0.00.38	Sepia brown
0.00.40	B/W - Opening credits
0.01.11	Yellow-brown - Opening credits and prelude
0.03.36	Sepia - Introductory machine and cityscape sequence
0.04.47	Yellow-brown - Change of shift, workers and their city
0.07.30	B/W - Masterman Stadium
0.09.40	Purple-pink - Gardens of Pleasure
0.11.30	Purple-pink to B/W - entrance of Maria and children
0.17.10	Yellow-brown - Freder in machine rooms, Moloch
0.22.55	B/W to pale sepia - Freder in taxi
0.24.30	Dark yellow-brown - Joh Fredersen's office
0.32.10	B/W - cityscape and skyscraper images
0.32.50	Dark yellow-brown - Joh Fredersen's office
0.40.40	Red-brown
0.41.40	Dark yellow-brown - Joh Fredersen's office
0.42.50	Yellow-brown - Freder at Paternoster machine with Georgie
0.44.45	Dark yellow-brown - Rotwang's house
0.47.30	Brown - Rotwang and Joh Fredersen, Robot sequence
0.56.00	Blue - Steam whistle for change of shift
0.56.40	Brown - Rotwang's study
1.00.20	B/W to pale purple-blue - Maria preaching in catacombs
1.09.40	B/W to pale purple - Freder and Maria in catacombs
1.25.55	Yellow-brown [Rotwang's study]
1.26.35	B/W - Freder and Maria in catacombs
1.26.45	Yellow-brown - Maria in transformation machine
1.30.40	B/W - Freder looking for Maria in city
1.32.15	Yellow-brown - Freder confronts Rotwang; Freder and Josephat
1.36.30	Purple - Evil Maria as Vamp at Yoshiwara's
1.38.00	Yellow-brown - Freder and Josephat
1.39.05	B/W - Maria and Rotwang discussion; evil Maria preaching to workers in catacombs
1.49.10	Yellow-brown - flood sequence and destruction of underground city
2.00.35	B/W and Sepia - saving of children from flood
2.40.00	Sepia - flood
2.10.35	B/W and Yellow-brown - mob scene in streets (B/W), burning of evil Maria, and fight at Cathedral

Item 2: Metropolis - 'James Pearson version'

Circa 1951, nitrate, composite release print, 35mm, sound, c.8500 feet. NFSA item number 10774. Editorial construction and sound and music dubbing under W. James Pearson. Director of sound recording: Ian A. Morris. Associate: Ian Vibant. Music by Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. Copy recorded on Mirrovox Wide Range System at Video Film Studios, Sydney. Running time: 95 minutes @ 24fps.

Item 3: Metropolis - trailer, 1951

NFSA item number 12935. Approximate running time: 2 minutes. Refer also items 280791, 280793, and 281138.

Item 4: Taussig Collection

The following Metropolis-related photographs are from the Taussig Collection. This comprises some 25,000 prints by the Austrian film photographer who migrated to Australia in 1939. All the items listed below are approx. 6 x 4 inch black and white copy prints. There are 220 Metropolis items in the Taussig 'B2' series and a number of related or associated items in separate series, including studio portraits of the various stars. Reference: Time in our Hands - Report of the National Film and Sound Archive Advisory Committee, Commonwealth of Australia, Sydney, 1985, 136p

Series B2

Maria kissing Freder in the catacombs (NB: this Freder is not Gustav Frohlich)
Evil Maria in Yoshiwara, on the shoulders of young man and amidst a crowd
Maria kissing man in catacombs (not Gustav Frohlich) - different to B2-1
Angry mob running past cars in the street
Evil Maria on the steps of the Moloch machine, urging on the mob below to attack the machine
Evil Maria tied on to the stake
Children at the gong monument during the flood
Evil Maria on the 7 headed beast, with hands of the crowd of men raised towards her in the front. See also the earlier image of the hands raised towards the Tower of Babel and the later view of the children's hands raised towards Freder and Maria on the gong monument
Destroyed Heart Machine
Maria on gong monument
Maria and Freder on gong monument with children
Maria and children being told to leave the Eternal Gardens
Joh Fredersen in his office
Evil Maria on the stake
[same as 5]
Production shot - Maria in catacombs whilst being chased by Rotwang
Production shot - Freder and Georgy at the paternoster machine, with Fritz Lang to the right
Production shot - Fritz Lang, Karl Freund and group
Production shot - constructing set in front of Rotwang's house, with skyscrapers in background
Production shot - Maria at her altar
Production shot - camera plus rod setup
Production shot - Fritz Lang looks on with warm smile
Production shot - filming of flood sequence
Production shot - Fritz Lang plus group, with skyscrapers in background
Production shot - Maria struggling with gong; Fritz Lang and crew to the left
Production shot - Fritz Lang at camera; Neu Babelsburg crate to left
Production shot - Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm and Thea von Harbou musical group
Production shot - Fritz Lang, Robot and Rotwang
Maria kissing 'Freder' in catacombs (not Gustav Frohlich)
Production shot: Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm and Thea von Harbou as musical band
31 Mob holds Freder back from saving Maria on pyre
Freder watches bodies being taken away after Moloch machine accident
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High priest of Babel preaches
High priest of Babel on steps
Women in Pleasure Garden gather round Maitre d'
Grot and mob
Freder and Maria meet on gong monument - children below raise their hands upwards
Evil Maria on the shoulders of a young man in Yoshiwara
40 Freder and girls in Pleasure Garden
Destruction of Moloch machine
Joh Fredersen at the HM2 viewer
7 Deadly Sins alcove
Evil Maria preaching to the workers
Workers in polluted air file past paternoster machine
Freder coming out of the cathedral in daylight
Freder standing in front of the 7 Deadly Sins alcove
Fritz Lang, Karl Freund, Gunther Rittau, Brigitte helm et al. with large group of women dressed for Yoshiwara and Pleasure Gardens scenes
Freder and Josephat in flooding drain
50 Rotwang grabs trapped Maria on table
Grot in front of Moloch machine
Worker climbs down ladder
Workers at Moloch machine
Evil Maria on the shoulders of a young man in Yoshiwara - arms raised up
Freder crucified on paternoster clock
Slim propositions Josephat in the latter's apartment
Production shot: Maria with candle and Fritz Lang
Freder and Maria in front of altar
Joh Fredersen in front of television machine
Joh and Rotwang in front of Hel monument
Cross embedded in bricks within wall of catacombs, plus burial chambers
Workers in elevator
Mob attacks Heart machine
Mob holds Freder back from saving Maria from pyre
Freder on paternoster clock
Evil Maria on the shoulders of a young man in Yoshiwara - pulls back top to reveal breasts
Robot looks at Rotwang
Maria with candle in catacombs room with skulls
Production shot: Maria in catacombs
Production shot: Rotwang backed by skulls
Rotwang and instruments in laboratory
Yoshiwara crowd and workers mob clash
Freder raises arms in front of mob as Maria is on pyre
Production shot: Fixing Gustav Frohlich's teeth - Fritz Lang and Karl Freund
Steam whistles
Mob running amongst stalled cars
Joh and Rotwang in cave above Maria's altar
Freder fights workers in Maria's church area
People coming down stairs of Yoshiwara
Evil Maria in front of doors to ?New Tower of Babel
Freder at trap door
Crowd at Yoshiwara stairs
Evil Maria in front of doors to ?New Tower of Babel
Slim, Josephat and Joh in the latter's office, lights out
Joh Fredersen at his desk
Freder sits in chair reading book
Josephat in his apartment smoking
Slim in Josephat's apartment, standing with Georgy's cap in his hand and looking questioningly towards Josephat
Josephat working in Joh Fredersen's office in front of machine showing 'Sidney'
Josephat on floor of his apartment, with Slim standing over him after their fight. Slim has one leather glove on his hand
Man at work on Moloch machine dials
Slim looks on at Freder in bed, nurse adjacent
Freder and Joh in latter's office, curtains closing
Group on roof of cathedral
Rotwang and electric torch at entrance to trapdoor
Tower of Babel
Long shot of Evil Maria in front of Heart machine guages
Grot in front of Moloch machine
Freder and Maria at base of stairs
Mob storms up steps
Slim and Georgy in cab - Slim grabs Georgy
Grot in front of Moloch machine
Grot pulls lever to open doors to Heart machine room
Grot in front of destroyed Heart machine
Freder and girls in front of fountain
Production shot: Hall of Machines
Rotwang and Joh watch workers go down steps of catacombs
Production shot: Rotwang and Joh walking down steps in catacombs with torches
Slim and Josephat in front of lifts in Josephat's apartment
Slim and Josephat in the latter's apartment - Slim with large hat on
Freder chases girl around fountain
Rotwang and the cornered trapped Maria
Freder with Maria's piece of cloth on steps
Mob runs down stairs towards Heart machine
Girl at fountain
Freder kisses girl at fountain
Freder and girl at fountain
Group in front of fountains
Freder chases girl around fountain
Freder and girl at fountain
Production shot: Woman at fountain
Woman at fountain
Angry Grot
Catacombs
Hadrian Maria Netto and Georgy
Maitre d'
Workers walk down catacomb steps
Maria and children enter Pleasure Gardens
Rotwang and Freder and cloth
Joh and Rotwang and Robot
Joh and Rotwang closes curtains to Hel monument, with laboratory to left
Production shot: Fritz Lang and Evil Maria preaching
Rotwang and Josephat at trap door
Maria and children enter Pleasure Gardens
Rotwang and Maria at table
Maria trapped in Rotwang's - stairs upwards
Rotwang shines light on trapped Maria
Rotwang grabs fainted Maria on table
Joh stands over Rotwang on floor after having knocked him down - clenched fists
Freder at door with piece of wood
Maria in catacombs
Maria and candle in skulls area
Production shot: Maria near altar
Freder and Maria close together
Men attack Grot
Production shot: Hall of Machines
Moloch machine destroyed
Heart machine
Production shot: Swinging camera, rear view
Crowd holds back Freder from Maria on pyre
Mob in front of pyre
Rotwang gets up off floor after being knocked down
Flood scene
Freder climbs up during flood
Saving children
Slim offers Josephat money in the latter's apartment
Geyser in road
Freder forces grate to free children trapped on stairs
Freder climbs up to help children trapped on stairs
Production shot: Freder kneels before Maria
Car with Freder travels along raised street
People in Pleasure Garden
Evil Maria and mob attack Moloch machine
Mob attacks Heart machine
Evil Maria preaching
Evil Maria inciting mob
Rotwang in laboratory
Men sit around model of Tower of Babel
Grot and mob at Moloch machine
Joh enters office
Slim and Joh in office
Joh and Rotwang in room, looks at watch
Two Pleasure Garden girls
Evil Maria dances upon serpents - squats down
Evil Maria dances upon serpents - raises arms
Evil Maria dances upon serpents
Evil Maria dances upon serpents
Evil Maria dances upon serpents
Production shot: Maria practices her dance in front of Fritz Lang
Slim and Joh in office
Production shot: Maitre d' and girls
Saving children in the flood
Black Maria and leg bracelet
Maitre d' and girls
Children escape flood
Children escape flood
Maria saves children from flood
Maria saves children from flood
Maria in catacombs
Maitre d' and girls
Production shot: T of M
Joh and Rotwang's servant in Joh's office
Joh and Grot shake hands
Josephat and Freder in Freder's room
Evil Maria in bowl
Joh and Freder leave the latter's room
Joh in office in front of 'Sidney'
Maria on gong
Close up - Evil Maria of bowl with headdress
Black Maria dances
Evil Maria on serpent
Evil Maria dances
Josephat and Freder in Josephat's apartment - Freder in worker's clothes, seated
Worker at machine
Evil Maria on serpent
Evil Maria on serpent
Children at entrance to Club of Sons
Joh in office
Grot in Joh's office
Joh in office
Evil Maria on Moloch machine steps
Grot whistles
Heart machine destroyed
Grot on Moloch machine
Production shot: Freder and Josephat climbing tubes
Georgy in front of New Tower of Babel looking for taxi - cars drive by
Slim looks out of window of Josephat's apartment
Production shot: Slim in cab with Georgy
Production shot: Rotwang in front of Hel monument
Newstand with crowd of people

Additional Taussig Items

ADP3 - 54 to 77 - Fritz Lang production shots - includes some Metropolis-related items

ADP3-62 - Fritz Lang and assistant producer Rudi George

Portraits (studio and postcard portraits)

EA2 65 and 72 - Gustav Frohlich

EA3 5 and 6 - Heinrich George

EA3 4 and 34, B1-101 - Rudolf Klein-Rogge

EA5 20 and 23 - Theodore Loos

EA6-22 - Fritz Rasp

WS7 21 and 30 - Cameramen

EA1-1 - Alfred Abel

B1-82 - Brigitte Helm

ADP2 58 and 59 - Thea von Harbou

Item 5: Score

Printed copy, 207p, n.d. Refer Metropolis Score - Channing Pollock Version web page for information on this item. It appears to be an edited version of the original score by Gottfried Hupperitz, though there are no annotations or bibliographic information within the publication to verify this.

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Last updated: 28 March 2000

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