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Here is the link. It had been thought lost forever. A full 210 minute reel of the film, containing the lost scenes, was found in a museum in Argentina.
I just spent an evening, not to long ago, hunched over my television watching a reconstruction of the original, painstakingly restored. These people did things like compare the original title cards to the notes on the music score to try to figure out what had been in the missing scenes. Even so, the missing scenes were still missing, so I got to see card saying: "Rotwang discovers Fredersen in the temple facing the larger-than-life statue of his dead wife, Hel," or what have you.
It seems someone has a print, a full print. The missing scenes are no longer missing.
Editors butchered the scenes in this silent masterpiece of Science Fiction, ripping out whole plotlines, and making certain remaining scenes simply senseless. (In the original, the mad scientist Rotwang hates Joh Freder, the master of the city, and seeks to destroy him: in the cut version, Rotwang is helping Freder, and the robot is allegedly meant to replace the workingmen, rather than replace the dead wife both men loved, and the betrayal of Freder is left unexplained.)
By the beard of Saint James Matamoros, I'd love to see an uncut, restored, complete version.
It seems someone has a print, a full print. The missing scenes are no longer missing.
Editors butchered the scenes in this silent masterpiece of Science Fiction, ripping out whole plotlines, and making certain remaining scenes simply senseless. (In the original, the mad scientist Rotwang hates Joh Freder, the master of the city, and seeks to destroy him: in the cut version, Rotwang is helping Freder, and the robot is allegedly meant to replace the workingmen, rather than replace the dead wife both men loved, and the betrayal of Freder is left unexplained.)
By the beard of Saint James Matamoros, I'd love to see an uncut, restored, complete version.
July 3 2008, 16:11:56 UTC 3 years ago
Incredable! Amazing!
Any idea how long before someone puts the whole thing out on DVD?July 3 2008, 16:23:00 UTC 3 years ago
; )
July 3 2008, 17:12:37 UTC 3 years ago
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July 5 2008, 13:58:43 UTC 3 years ago
John just watched the reconstructed version recently...I wonder how close the reconstructed version will be to the real version.
July 3 2008, 17:27:52 UTC 3 years ago
By the way, I recently got a copy of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane because of your mention of it awhile back--thank you! I am enjoying them very much, and I would never have heard of them, probably, if it weren't for you.
July 3 2008, 17:48:42 UTC 3 years ago
Next they will find the lost tragedies of Aeschylus.
July 3 2008, 18:25:04 UTC 3 years ago
WOWOWOWOWOW is exactly right.
July 3 2008, 18:15:54 UTC 3 years ago
July 3 2008, 18:52:51 UTC 3 years ago
Reminds me of how a print for some long-lost Doctor Who episode is occasionally found in the root cellar of some insurance company in Reykjavik or wherever.
July 3 2008, 19:12:40 UTC 3 years ago
I'm excited!
This is wonderful news, and I too wonder when a full version will make its way out.
A true icon of cinema, the blueprint for a whole genre, this news should be of interest to everyone, not just us science fiction geeks :-)
July 3 2008, 19:53:58 UTC 3 years ago
Hopefully the print will be well taken care of, and they'll be able to get dvds from it...
July 3 2008, 22:35:08 UTC 3 years ago
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July 4 2008, 01:26:59 UTC 3 years ago
I think I told this story. A long time ago, I went to London, visited the BBC's museum of television and movies. I was stunned to see a Dalek, until my brother turned my head, and then I saw Maria.
The Dalek was 10 on the cool factor. Maria went to 11!
July 5 2008, 14:02:21 UTC 3 years ago
Well, I did not turn my head in time, so I never saw what they saw. I did not know what they had seen or what Dalek was...but I wondered about it for years.
I think that I finally found out what they were in a roleplayin game John ran (where they were defeated by going up stairs.) But the first time I actually saw one, in the recent Dr. Who, stairs would no longer defeat them.
July 9 2008, 00:45:39 UTC 3 years ago
*sigh*
In the new series, they have better FX, better plots, better dialogue. In the old series, they were obviously having a lot more fun.
July 4 2008, 15:55:45 UTC 3 years ago
I'd been holding off from seeing one of the cut versions in the vague hope that the missing footage would surface and I could watch that instead; it looks like my wait paid off!