Moving Pictures "Metropolis".

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  • Author(s): Gerstein, Evelyn
  • Source:
    Nation. 3/23/1927, Vol. 124 Issue 3220, p323-324. 2p.
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    • Abstract:
      This article focuses on the motion picture "Metropolis." Hollywood lives for money and sex. It borrows or buys its art. It is the Germans who are the perpetual adventurers in the cinema. They gave the camera its stripling mobility, its restless imagination. They played with lights in the studio and achieved innumerable subtleties in the use of black and white as a medium. Even in their scientific miniatures they have worked with a virtuoso camera. And it was the Germans who injected fantasy into the cinema. "Metropolis", for its entire thesis and its sub titular dialectic compounded for American comprehension vagaries of "Siegfried"