[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1927) Metropolis, Fritz Lang. Maria's transformation.
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Music: Holst - The Planets, Op. 32 - I. Mars, the Bringer of War.
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I can only imagine how infinitely profound and shocking this movie was to the audience back in 1927.
Nothing visually could have compared.
12 years later The Wizard of Oz was released and the gradual change from B&W to color in the film must be a real shocker and wonder to the audience. Gone with the Wind was also visually pleasing that i forget sometimes that this movies are more than 80 years old.
It's still mesmerizing if you lose yourself the picture.
@@amateurbarnaby I was just talking to my uncle today about that. He had watched the movie for YEARS in only black and white and one day his family got a color tv and he watched it and again it was in black and white at first and he said it was unbelievably awesome to see it in color the first time without expecting it.
I can't imagine
the movie flopped when it was new
i wonder if anyone thought they could bang a robot back then...
For 1927 this is really ahead of its time
The definition of science fiction.
German Expressionism
Becouse it's illuminati film my friend, I don't understand any scene here, that's for sure. The spoiler is, that's how they control us.
tbf films had to scale back once sound showwed up as the tech for all the sound had much lower range which is why you wouldnt see as many grand areas up until the 50s and 60s
It is the film, by which all others are measured.
The perfect Sci-Fi Frankenstein. Almost 96 years old and the effects are still amazing and convincing. I bet that sinister wink at the end was the inspiration for Norman Bates grin at the end of Psycho.
Has nothing todo with frankenstein
@@F-Andre Clearly inspired by Frankenstein in places, but ok.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein IS sci fi. It's widely accepted as the novel that gave life to the genre.
? ITs the occult symbol" the one eye". Its a : haha you stupid fucks, we gonna do it to you because we want and you are not listening. the transformation today!
@@F-Andre H.G. Wells accused it of being derivative of Frankenstein.
I never realized that the reconstruction of leeloo’s body in the Fifth Element was a direct quote of this scene.
I IMMEDIATELY thought of Leeloo in the Fifth Element when I saw this scene. Is it actually inspired by it or just your guess?
I was thinking Weird Science...
Me too
I was just thinking about that. Also, I never watched Metropolis so... 😅
Pratically anything in the fifth element is plagiarism
I can’t imagine the amount of work that 1920’s artists and filmmakers would’ve had to put into these SFX, done by hand? Truly ahead of their time
not to mention the engineers to make these scifi paraphernalia work haha
that was in Gemany Berlin 1927, my Father was there.....Hitler running around in Berlin......Hitler the Devil.....
Those special effects are amazing for 1927!
“Mars” from Gustav Holst is also a perfect choice for this scene ✨
The music was so on point that I had to wonder if it was written for this scene.
"...perfect choice..."
No. Wrong.
There have been other sound cues out there that were better, and not relying on old worn out trope music.
Try this for the urgency and awesomeness of the scene: ua-cam.com/video/WsSsrLeF-4I/v-deo.html
Thank you for not deleting my opinion.
@@JohnnyChicago It sucked.
Love the gadgets seen in Mad Scientist’s labs.
They should be amazing. They cost a fortune!
The fact that the science technology in this scene was accomplished very well back in 1927 is so shocking. Truly one of the greatest films and sci fi films of all time.
I love Maria's walk and sinister facial expression after her transformation.
This movie is a gem of cinema, so much is said with no words.
Brigitte Helm did a brilliant job in this movie. She adopted an expression that clearly showed to the audience which "Maria" she was in any scene, the real one or the robot.
@@chrisparkes2179 Was the point of this to transform her into a robot S Lut?
@@TheVirginGary PSYCHOLOGY. She was a temptress leading people astray. I can't say as I'd BLAME them.
@@TheVirginGary She was supposed to be a symbolic "whore of Babylon" and is pointed out as such in another dream sequence scene in the movie where a minister on a pulpit holds up a picture from the Bible , that says ( in German) "the whore of Babylon," and it's a picture of the robot Maria in her seductive dance costume. She is the personification of evil, lust and degeneracy, there to lead the people astray.
This was far more haunting and chilling than the black and white original. My God... The acting appears much stronger in the colorized version and it truly reveals the Expressionist feel. Thank you for this!
I recently watched this movie it was fabulous! Considering it was a hundred years old it was state-of-the-art. Excited, easy to follow which reaffirms my admiration for Fritz Lang the genius of early cinematography and storyline.
Fritz Lang was a true visionary, and the actors were better than any today. this iconic film has stood the test of time. i first saw it in 1979 in a church basement showing. have seen it about 9 or so times since. always amazes me and tugs at my heart.
I actually didnt liked it much, afte4 so many years of praise i thought it would be better, like Citizen Kane...
@@CabezasDePescado Which is also a movie many find disappointing after so many years of praise, so I guess that makes sense.
@@CabezasDePescado Everyone has their thought-would-be-better movie, mine are Vertigo and Pulp Fiction.
5:34 When the robot Maria opens her eyes has got to be one of the most sinister moments in cinema. Brigitte Helm created a perfect uncanny valley moment there.
Her carefully crafted expression is just so unnerving. Truly uncanny.
Some 40 years ago I showed an 8mm silent copy of Metropolis down my basement to a group of friends. I too used "Mars" for this scene. It's like it was written precisely for it. My congratulations on the music and the colorization and my thanks for posting this. Looking forward to some more of your Metropolis postings.
I`m deeply impressed with special effects, and I cannot believe this movie was produced in 1927.
It was.
Watch the full movie. They have video calls and screens mounted to their walls.
They had electric cars and charging stations all over the place in the 1890's. God knows what other history and technologies they've covered up
@@pistoffpussycat5778
Sure... 😂😂😂
@@shizukagozen777 There's photos of it
I was blown away when I first viewed Metropolis. I was in such awe for how ahead of it's time and gorgeous it all was. It's timeless
For an almost 100 years old movie absolutely astonishing.
I LOVED how you guys made the dance scene on that prior video upload. The music was BANGING too
I've watched countless films on my projector but one that still visually impresses me the most is Metropolis. It really was art back then.
No shit
The bit that always take me out of this scene is that Maria’s features don’t line up in the final dissolve from robot to person - just that final detail after such amazing effects work
I love it. It's loaded with hints of art deco, introduced in Paris in 1925.
This looked like a film that could have been made today the fact that its almost a century ago makes it all the more remarkable
PLEASE!! Let us know when you guys colorize the entire movie ❤️
Someone already has...
ua-cam.com/video/7_rNNr_ZMWk/v-deo.html
And it's free. You're welcome. 🙂
They don’t do that.
@TheMaidofMiddleEarth After January 1st, 23... Not an issue anymore.
There is a new colorized blu ray out
Movie? It is a documentary. That is how things were done back then.
It's really impressive, the attention to detail like the heart glowing is brilliant. The effects look more like a movie from the 60s or even later.
There were some amazing effects in movies back then. The flying carpet scene in the 1924 Thief of Baghdad is stunning.
And Buster Keaton's stunts and physical effects are among the best ever done.
Another Fritz Lang movie "Frau im Mond" inspired the NASA later to introduce the countdown. Many details of this film were realised during the Apollo project.
Hermann Oberth was a technical counselor to Fritz Lang and Oberth was the man, who inspired Werner v. Braun in his plan to develop a multistage liquid propellant rocket.
He loves this film, too.
Still one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Metropolis!! Isn't just a movie! is just a huge epic! Everyone who loves cinema needs to watch! I just fall in love for this classic 👏
Metropolis is one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time. I just love the classics.
wow, you did an amazing job and revitalized an already magnificent movie to something even more spectacular
Never imagined such movie existed in 1927, this is incredible!!
Nor anything by the looks of your amazement that the era produced anything decent.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Hey there I'm a classical music nerd, I'm the first one to fall in love with the art of the 19th and 20th, cinema just isn't my thing. Let's not step into boring elitism, it just perpuates the negative image people generally have of those mediums.
@@anti64 I see so many comments of people gawking over the plain idea that an a certain era (1920's, 1930's, 1950's etc...) could create good work. If its ever good, it has to be compared as ahead of its time, by people who don't know the time.
I saw parts of this wonderful film when I was under 10 years old and the girl, Brigette Helm fascinated me, as did the effects. I used to go to Saturday morning movies at the local cinema around 1963 ( I was 8 ) and watched Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon, which were made around 1936 onwards. The effects in Metropolis 1927, were, in my mind, superior to Flash Gordon made 10 years later. I've always had a small crush on Brigitte as she is very beautiful. She died in 1996 aged 90.❤❤
Amazing stuff, well done! Would kinda love to see a side-by-side of the original/raw footage vs colorized 4k sometime :D
No WAY you made a 95 year old film look THAT GOOD
You should see how I restored my 98-year-old grandmother. Now she works at hooters.
@@XIXbacktolife 🤣
I wouldn't say it was good, OK maybe but it needs a lot of work.
@@Rusty84CV Ignorami. Go back to your Iron Man & Mission Impossible then.
@@XIXbacktolife Why you Evil B@stard you! So... uh... which Hooters is it where she works...?
Absolutely stunning
The Mars score adds enormously to the film
Was that in the original?
@@peter298aNo. This is from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst. 10 years older than the film.
a master piece of SF and near 100 years old. colour and 4k brings it so near of us... thanks for this great job!!! 😎😎😎
I love the higher resolution, like the color, but I am fascinated by the quality of the original special effects in this scene.
That slow wink is absolutely terrifying for some reason. I feel my soul being manipulated lol
I appreciate the work that goes into colourizing and upscaling the movies but I sincerely feel theres a magic quality to the B&W aged look and atmosphere the older movies have.
This is actually a terrifying scene. The woman is forced and turned into a robot against her will.
How are the editing and effects of this almost 100 year old short piece of film better than what Marvel has been pumping out the last 5 years
(Edited bc dudes cant figure out what i meant)
The original version is reported to be around 160mins. Metropolis is the jewel and the crown of sci fi movie genre.
It's 2.5 hours long.
@@MINKIN2 yes, i have google as well
@@suavemsuavemente im just curious of the point of repeating a comment above yours? Yes lol i have eyes and able to read both the title of the video and the description, im glad you do as well. It's sad that it wasnt obvious i was talking about this short piece of the film that is this video lmfao but I'll edit it for the slows
@@ANTE_artroom actually I was referring to this short video by itself from the film but thanks yall for the what's referred to in the title of the video and the description, glad you also have eyes 💙
Wow. Flippin amazing. Currently working on a score for this grand film for its entering public domain in a few years.
I think it becomes public domain in the USA on Jan 1st 2023 (copyright in 1927, 95 year term) - better get a move on!
It is copyright in Germany until 2047, which is a ridiculous amount of time, so you could still get a claim restricting its showing in Germany on UA-cam.
@@isovideo7497 oh really. That's good info. I was under the impression it was 99 years in the U.S..
Metropolis becomes public domain on 01/01/2023; three and a half hours from posting this.
Amazing , the laboratory and the transformation are so impressive.
It's been a long time since I've watched this movie but now I need to see it again.
I love your work, but really wish you would show a brief clip at the start or even a side by side of the original footage so we can see how amazing this is.
The laboratory set is great. 👍 🎥
Pure treat. Thanks.
You should do a video on the process you use to create these.
It's called "Neuralink".
MEXIE! Howdy, Dude! Remember me from Gaffed Academy? Haven't seen you there for awhile. I was thinking of you 2 days ago, as the subject of separating cards was featured.
Small world!
Good to run into you!
@@NickvonZ It's a small world after all.
@@XIXbacktolife 😸👍
This esoteric view is amazing. Love the snippets with commentary!
The colorization in all of the film clips seems like AI produced, and albeit some frames seems very believable, others shots will shift the hue completely opposite or areas would still be black and white. I say you guys need an FX artist to help touch up the areas the AI may miss and this would be truly incredible.
@TheMaidofMiddleEarth Indeed. Which is why I think it was produced by AI. It should always, if so that is, be a tool and the absolute.
Just drop the colourisation. Go for monochrome or a solid tint as Lang intended. Because of the amount of restoration that was already done prior to the digital stabilisation, colourisation & upscale, there are times where the software doesn't have enough information to work with. For a split second here & there the algorithm has to guess & as amazing as it is it gets it wrong, which creates those fluctuations.
Sometimes limiting the end result to a high quality version of the original would be better than trying to create something that looks truly modern.
I think what's being done with these old films is incredible, but sometimes less is more.
@@runlarryrun77 Lang didn't intend black and white, he was bound to it, because color wasn't available. He was one of the very first to produce color movies and talkies as soon as he got access to the technology.
For my tastes I don’t like colorization of black & white or sepia tone original prints. It is effectively reshooting the movie as color plays an important role in creating visual structure. It isn’t evenly applied so then it becomes a distraction. Blue could be used to hold a subliminal feeling but…oh…wait, his jacket is now gray. What does that mean? Bruce Block’s book on Visual Story telling is fascinating.
@@austinevplab7167 Depending on the work, and how the colorization was done, I wouldn't mind adding color to something black and white. But how color is done needs to reflect the original vision of the work too. It is easy to create high contrast between two toned images, it's either black or white, but with color, they can either complement another or clash with another and every culture sees color differently, but see black and white all the same. Why I kinda play the fence on classical movies as opposed to documentry and live shot footage. When color is done right with that, and you have a very good, clean film, its like traveling back in time to see a world long forgotten. But it is nonetheless, a lot of work to work with film to get that result in any regard. Key word being, work.
I love the way they painted the eyes back then, very theatrical
Great music chosen to accompany the film.
This is the movie you've been waiting for a LANG time!
Since most of the cables are attached to the chair would not the chair have been transformed as opposed to the android?
How fun was that- nice work! Thanks for sharing.
The Simpsons should do a version Metropolis as one of their Halloween episode segments.
Marge is Maria. Mr Burns is head of the city. Comic book guy as the mad scientist?
My very last paper I wrote before graduated in May of 2022, was on this movie. I wrote about it's elements of capturing the Expressionist movement and how it represented a lot of elements of post-World War 1. The movie emphasizes fear and the unknown elements that many Germans experienced during the war and afterward. The darkness was portrayed very well for it's time and I noticed this movie even set the tone for future Science Fiction works like Star Wars and Star Trek.
I heard this movie is going to public domain in January 1 of 2023, such an amazing film
There's a lot to love here. It's amazing to see even a few minutes of this groundbreaking film, especially when you consider how the full version was thought to have been lost forever.
However I feel that full colourisation is asking too much from the original material. Despite the first rate restoration by DeutsheKino there are still corruptions in the print which the AI tech can't cope with. Due to the amount of restoration work required with some of this old nitrate stock it's always going to be an issue.
So, perhaps less is more? A monochrome or solid tint upscale would be so much more stable & would also be very fitting for a movie of that era. Plus the original lighting, film stock & make up were selected & balanced to work from black to white. Colour was never even a consideration, as it was never intended it can lead to issues when it gets added.
I'd love to see this the way contemporary audiences would have. Clear & stable, projected at 24fps. A crisp 720p restoration would do the restored material justice without asking too much of any digitisation. I think that would be beautiful & about as close to Lang's original vision as we'll ever get.
Anyway, just the opinions of a cinephile & former film student.
Color didn't create issues in movies that were color, but yes, the B&W series of nickelodeons were heavily inspired to bounce off of the point of it pretending to have the idea of color.
I love the music and the way Maria starts walking @6:02
I remember seeing a clip of this scene in one of those CD encyclopedias in the early 2000s. As a kid I was creeped out lol. And I still don't know what this movie is about.
La película trata sobre la dominación de la voluntad humana. Ingeniería social. Una sociedad de hombres masificados, sin capacidad de reacción ante el abuso y tiranía del poder. Metrópolis está hoy más vigente que nunca. Una producción muy adelantada a su tiempo. Saludos cordiales desde Pontevedra (España 🇪🇦)
Slaves robots which are the actual aims of the WEF with Humans.
oh my god i was just thinking this when i saw the thumbnail but can't remember what it was called
@@vilangel78 Interesante. Gracias por la información.
@@diormilk9977 Ikr. A memory was unlocked today.
THAT was fun! Great choice of Holst's "Mars" as the music. FUN!
Great job 👏 Never thought I would see anything like that... LOVE this flick
Dude, if this is from 1927, this is absolutely groundbreaking in so many ways
5:35 for gwad swakes! I'm so uncultured. That music was in Ocean software's 1990 Atari STe game Epic, if I recall. Beautiful music and basic 3D worked well.
This is the masterpiece of a movie and the performance!
The suspense is amazing
You guys should all go watch the anime version of this movie. I watched it years ago, and it legit made me cry.
How the heck did they do the special effects 100 years ago???
nearly a century old.... let that sink in
Like some others have said---would love the entire movie like this......!!
I watched this video clip 5 or 6 time. I absolutely love the way you restored it. It’s a fascinating piece and your work brought it to life. Soooo….are there any plans to do the whole movie?
Way better than movies of today.👍👍👍👍
Outstanding somewhere I have a copy of the original black and white with the original sound track.
the precursor to Frankenstein. Gustave Holst's The Planets (Mars for this soundtrack) was done 10 years before. as most of you know, this movie had its music done by pianos at almost all the theaters with certainly not with this soundtrack. if you really also want to see another seminal film like this, checkout Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau, done in 1947 in black and white.
Excellent special effects for its time wonderful colorization technique thank you
I’m simultaneously entranced by the Art Deco style and the thought “Hm, early AI”.
Почитала коментарии,все пишут о спецэфектах и никто не упомянул о актриссе сыгравшей Марию ,перевоплощение бесподобное!
I just had the opportunity to watch it in the Babylon cinema in Berlin with a live orchestra. An absolutely unforgettable experience ❤
good selection of music
It I hard to believe this film is nearly 100 years old.
То, что я сейчас посмотрела - это просто шедевр тех времен!
Nice choice of music.
Omg seriously this could've passed as a 1980s film!
Nah. The table looks 100 years old.
what kinda 80s movies you watching bro
The increased framerate is amazing! It adds a lot.
The automated colorization, less so.
It'd be cool to see colorization with more human direction, guided by someone with the boldness to go beyond retro pastels of early cinema colors. For instance, I always imagine the robot being shiny brass, like C-3PO, whose design was inspired by hers. Then, imagine that reflecting arcs of brilliant blue electricity, instead of yellow.
I'm a bit surprised that we don't already have AI methods of colorization able to follow man-made guides, rather than only trained.
Safe to say that James Whale liberally borrowed a lot of the mad scientist laboratory imagery seen here when he made the Frankenstein movie in 1931.
Interesting symbols in this film with much dark matter.
Y love the alemán xpresionism
The original C-3PO of Star Wars!
Music sounds very Star Wars like.
How did they do these effects in 1927? Before even the Turing Computer? Sketches onto the film frames?
I have this on dvd, a fabulous film.
I think this scene is amazing particularly when you realise it was shot almost 100 years ago. Colour takes it to another level.
Watching this now has a whole other meaning. Yep.
Fritz Lang, a master in movie making.
6:28 Clockwork Orange
Un ejemplo más de su excelente trabajo. Felicitaciones por tan magnífica pieza.
People were on this level of thought (and full blown production, using crude, inconvenient tools) one hundred years ago... wow...
Those colors threw me off except near the end and when I saw her dress was blue. Very cool this is great stuff.
Mars? Goddamn! How much more public domain creativity could one summon until the Disney catalogue has been liberated?
Just thinking now after my first comment, but if s soldier during d-day was talking to his fellow soldier and said "do u ever remember the movie 'Metropolis'? And the guy replied oh yes...that's an old movie! It's already 17 years ago.... it blows my mind still because it looks so modern and up to speed in comparison to movies from the 40's and some now. 😲