Metropolis: A Rare Film Programme for Fritz Lang’s Masterpiece
Original programme for the British premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927.
The world’s most valuable movie poster, for Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis, is to be auctioned again after making a record $690,000 in 2005. Ephemera related to the film is notoriously scarce, with only four copies of the poster known to survive.
Almost as uncommon is this amazing film programme produced for the London premiere at the Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21, 1927, one of only three copies that we have handled.
Not only a list of cast and crew, it includes eleven short pieces on the making of the movie, commentary from the director and cast, and numerous production photographs and film stills, many attractively arranged as modernist collages.
One of the most interesting sections shows in parallel columns how a passage of film scenes was adapted from the novel of the same name by Lang’s wife, Thea von Harbou.
Below the fold you’ll find the complete booklet – just click any image for the high-res version:
Fantastic
Thanks to Peter Harrington for generously making these pages available to the interested public in readable form.
Many thanks Peter Harrington, have been an avid fan of Metropolis for many years, incredible movie would have loved to have seen it when it was released, what an incredible experience that must have been.
I just wanted to add my thanks, as a fan of the film I found this very interesting!
Thanks for sharing this with all the movie buffs on the net.
very nice documentary like magazine
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this. “Metropolis” has always been the most important film in my life.
Thanks, will make a nice slideshow for my bonus DVD of the movie. 🙂
Many thanks for sharing this rare and precious item,all to often things like this are locked away in private collections
Thank you *very* much for placing high resolution images of the book’s pages on line.
I heard of the existence of this of this magazine decades ago – late US science fiction writer, editor, agent and fan Forrest J. Ackerman mentioned it, and I believe he had a copy. (Forry was known to have the largest collection of science fiction and fantasy related material in the world, which he had been collecting since the 1930’s.)
I loved the film, and have von Harbou’s novel, and I hoped to some day see a copy of the magazine. Now I have. Thank you again.
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Dennis
We recently released a fiction anthology called “The Towers of Metropolis” which has stories that take place before the events of the film. It is selling extremely well for us.
Thanks for posting this amazing magazine.
(https://www.amazon.com/Towers-Metropolis-One-1/dp/0692735380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471803861&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Towers+of+Metropolis)