Metropolis (1927 film)/Trivia

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• Bad Export for You: Up until 2003, nearly every version of this movie released in America was based on the heavily edited Channing Pollock version. And then there was the version made in The Eighties... an... interesting experiment.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Every version was different for decades. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by a collector before the first cuts were made, then wound up in an archive.
• Missing Episode: Missing a third of the entire movie for many years. Even with the rediscovered version, there are still two missing scenes; one of which is heavily plot-relevant. To make matters even worse, there have been rumors that there are even more missing scenes that were cut from the film before it's German premiere to help shorten the time of the film. It may be very likely that Lang didn't destroy these scenes and there may be even more unseen footage for this film.