This was stunning. Far far ahead of its time. Very under rated. This movie deserve more appreciation for being inspiration to thousands of sci fi movies later.

Damn! I knew the special effects in Metropolis were hard core, but not that they were this hard core.

The special effects were WAY ahead of their time.

I found out about this movie at most a couple of months ago and I'm fucking obsessed with it. Tldr below for film snobs wanting to feel something. So I saw a restored and colorized clip of the dancing scene and had to see more. I expected to skip around the full version finding funny scenes to laugh at for a few minutes. But the silent, black and white film was like a good book. I didn't notice the lack of dialog or color. It all came to life like when a reader stops seeing words but the scene happening around them. The hammy and now goofy overexaggerated acting turned into fully executed performances. The story was still relevant and I was just entrenched. It's no bullshit one of my favorite films and I can't wait to discover more old cinema!

God! Imagine the movie goers back then seeing this for the first time, Minds were blown that year!

25 drawings for 1 seconds shot. This is amazing

I love art deco style, therefore i love metropolis

it's just mind boggling the ingenuity of these filmmakers

I guess the whole point is that the creativityprocess has changed. While the tricks with mirrors or Stopmotion had a lot to do with "how do I archieve this illusion" the focus now is more to "how to I make this as most crazy as possible" - CGI is art, too but once you know 3dstudio the trick is not "how to do it" but how to render it just in time ;)

Ok this video made metropolis my most favorite film

They don't do effects like that anymore. It's amazing how much work they put into something that people'd just head straight to a computer to do nowadays. I wish something were going to be released in the recent future that pays homage to that by using traditional effects, or maybe a mix of modern and traditional.

Thanks for posting this. It is great to see some of the methods they used being explained.

Those cityscape shots give me massive Akira vibes

Fascinating.

Thanks, this was really really helpful in a report I am doing

Metropolis = MK Ultra Program!!!

Interesting Video, i like this movie

I had no idea that they went through so much trouble to make the effects come to life! It was a real achievement and prophetic about the fate of Germany!

- Sometimes I wonder if describing how some special effect is done takes away the magic, and we should just take it as it is. However, I think this video highlights the inventiveness and genius of those involved in the making of this masterpiece

The movie camera at :26, is not DEBRIE CAMERA. It is an Eclair. It would have been way easier to use than the Debrie as the Eclair had easier viewing through the lens

Yesterday's Star Wars.

Amazing 👏

1:39 - 2:03 I thought editing my first ever light saber fight frame by frame was hard.

Hey, I am writing a piece for my college about this film (specifically the vfx in it), and for various reasons they prefer to have articles/journals/books as sources over videos, blogs, etc. Furthermore despite a lot of research I was not able to find other sources on most of what you mention here. If its not impertinent to ask could you please share/mention the sources you've referred to here?

What is this excerpt from?

who here from advanced English year 12 YEEEET

@3:46 "Eugene Shuftan" What??!! How, on earth, could they so grossly mutilate the name of EUGEN SCHÜFFTAN (1893, Breslau/Germany - 1977, New York)? Ever since people gave themselves names, it has been a basic matter of politeness to spell these correctly. BTW I do not know how many uploaders used somebody else's work under their own name without giving any information on the originator.🤢

That is extremely ignorant, some of the most creative people in the VFX world worked on the avengers and they used many unconventional techniques that were very time consuming and hard to do. CG Effects aren't just a simple push on a button. I hate it when VFX are looked down upon just because they are made with computers.