Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/Metropolis (film)

User: PseudoSkull

File: Metropolis (1927).webm

Author: Fritz Lang

Publisher: Parufamet

Year: 1927

PD: PD/US|1976|film=yes

Note: Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. This is a transcription of the US English-translated release of the film, which had a length of around two hours of video. This version's intertitles fell into the public domain into the United States in 2023. It is unclear if it is the 1927 US version or a version released later, but it was certainly released on a film reel so before 1978. There are a few a more recent English versions (2008-2010, and 2022 respectively) that are making the rounds on the Internet, that are in higher quality and have a more pleasant viewing experience than this version overall. While the recorded (video) portions of any encode of the film are unambiguously in the public domain, the intertitles are not in the public domain, because in the US, translations garner a separate copyright from the original material they're translating from. Since those were translated in the 21st century, and aren't exact matches of any US or UK releases from 1927, etc., they cannot be transcribed from. So, effectively, in the United States, this version of Metropolis hosted on Wikisource is one of the only (if not the only) fully public-domain versions of the film.

Cat: Science fiction film, Silent film

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