METROPOLIS 1927 - In Color

Years ago i watched a colorized version of Metropolis and decided I'd learn how to colorize movies. So I thought I'd take a stab at doing my own version of the movie that started my interest in colourization.
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring Alfred Abel Brigitte Helm Rudolf Klein-Rogge Gustav Fröhlich

[@MrFelo17]

Metrópolis: a movie every human being must watch at least once in their lifetime

[@shawngreene3524]

I have no idea. Why ?

[@AlexDraco]

@@shawngreene3524 it's a masterwork of expressionist cinema from 1920's germany. Definitely ahead of it's time, too, it is one of the earliest science-fiction movies ever made, and the practical effects they used for it as absolutely ground-breaking for the era (remember it was directed in 1927).

[@shawngreene3524]

@@AlexDraco Oh, that's why. Thanks.

[@DEthe5150]

*at least

[@danieltello134]

This was an amazing colorization of this movie if it was available I’d gladly buy it-. Bravo sir you have done an amazing job on this clip, this lucky science fiction classic is glad to have found you and your talent. Thank you for sharing

[@mylesmulenga-uz6gd]

In 2 years this movie will be exactly 100 years old.

[@DEthe5150]

Correction: 2 and a half years. The movie was originally released in January 1927.

[@Emanuela9]

Oh, modern times.

[@krisstopher8259]

Almost a century old and still way better than most modern sci-fi. I love the art deco and the powerful music. And the added colors look great

[@sergiovelazquez8756]

The Colorized version of metropolis (1927) really looks Gorgeous and amazing ❤🐱😊

[@glenrich-uu9zr]

No matter of imaginations, future scientific predictions and beautiful AI android, it is unbelievable this is a 1927 movie. No Exagerrateingly to say that it compares equally with most sci-fi film today's in entertainment, surpassed many in coming anticipations.

[@jimmerhardy]

This is shockingly clear and extremely well done.

[@jaimehudson7623]

Would buy the movie like this on Blu-Ray if available!

[@averycoolgroundhog1117]

I really like Metropolis because it is such a prominent example of how the 1920s portrayed "Sci-Fi" and one can make really interesting contrasts between Metropolis and what came about later (Star Trek, Star Wars, the Dune film) and the way Sci-Fi has evolved over almost 100 years.

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

This is incredible! The emotions are conveyed so strikingly through facial expressions and movements, and that womans eyes!!! Just WOW!!!

[@rccc5806]

This must be the greatest cinematic achievement. Accomplished so much with so little. Fantastic images that were beyond the imagination of most people in that era, a story so beyond dreams told only with images and music, no spoken or written word.

[@HeadoftheSeniorClass-en6qp]

Super! If you click on Settings (the gear icon) and set the playback speed to .75, you can see it in "real time."

[@MartinFarrell1972]

I've seen many versions of the film on here. I did see one with dialogue and background sound. There was also discovery of the missing footage on 16mm. This is the best colour version I have seen. If we could get all this together we could have the complete movie with colour and sound. In 2 years it will be in the public domain.

[@krakenopolis]

Esto es magnífico! Fue en su tiempo el "Blade runner" de la época. La película de Fritz Lang, seguirá siendo obra maestra absoluta!

[@Marybaeza-gt7cz]

One of my favorite movies and you just made it so Awesome! 😊👍

[@schrodingerssmilodon4144]

I've seen many attempts at colorizing this great film in my many years. This is by far the I've seen. Well done!

[@Bl0ckfett]

This isn't only a film. Watch close, think, and you'll find more than a film.

[@leeedwards9994]

absolutely ......

[@Emanuela9]

It's also a movie. 😂

[@macmcleod1188]

Your colorization is *much* better than many. Excellent work. You also upscaled and removed scratches too, right?

[@user-us4jp6oo1t]

日本ではまだ昭和2年　こんな映像ができたのはすごい

[@user-vu4lh8bw8d]

ドイツってやっぱり凄い

[@rena2168]

@@user-vu4lh8bw8d Peccato che poi sia sorto il nazismo

[@anthonyfrew1571]

Maybe I should not say it -but it remains a very impressive piece in colour - I would happily own both versions on Blur Ray

[@epicsseven7686]

Kraftwerk's "Man Machine" featuring the song, "Metropolis."

[@Magnetron33]

Very nice job The color looks great!

[@jonjonns2743]

I don't like colorization, but this was amazing.

I thought the same thing :D

[@Major003]

This is by far my favoeite colorization of _Metropolis._ It REALLY kept the colors in the Art Deco style, and I loved how the colors danced between silver and gold during evil-Maria's seductive nightmare dance. And the EYE SCENES! Wow! It was amazing to look at in the original, but adding realistic color... Man...

[@MS-pj6ql]

１００年前でこれか もういろいろ完成されてたんだな

[@TheEsquireClub]

It looks fantastic!

[@FreelanceLEEMOO]

非常にうまくカラー化できているので、驚いてますｗｗ この映画に関わった制作の人が見たら、どう思うんだろうね？　当時の撮影風景とか思い出すのだろうか？

[@user-fi5xb5vm5u]

監督とメインキャストはすでに鬼籍

[@ralphus44]

I usually hate colorizing classic movies but this looked amazing! Please do the whole movie!

[@aka99]

Try to find it on this platform

[@Astral_body]

I watch this movie recently and now that it’s been brought to color. It looks amazing. The only reason I say recently is because I purchased a version on DVD that they told me was one of the very few left in existence. I might as well put it in a perfectly preserved case as a time capsule where German expressionism came from.

[@Jacob_8313]

I love how industrialistic & surreal it is to see. I love it.

[@edgaresteban398]

Masterpiece ❤

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

This is incredible coloration work.

[@joaquinpajaro3968]

Hey, @RumbleDogPictures, what softwares or programs did you colorized this video with.

[@alexsafonov7270]

I love what you did with it! if it was up to me, you're hired to supervise a new pass at the whole thing 😎👍🏽

[@RhiMorningstar17]

Funny enough these effects still hold up extremely well today, Metropolis was way ahead of it's time

[@A.l85]

The color gives the movie life. I would be happy if you have the full movie♥️🙏

[@robertolensi7240]

Bellissima colorizzazione 🎉

[@chazseabrooks6473]

@ 1:44 And there you have it, folks! The INSPIRATION for 3-CPO! Love the Bennard Hermann soundtrack.

[@Emanuela9]

C-3PO! C-3PO! Where are you C-3PO?

[@chazseabrooks6473]

@@Emanuela9 😅

[@ct6852]

Wow this looks great. I'd always heard how influential this movie was but had never seen it. You can see it all over the history of Hollywood. Tim Burton must've been a fan.

[@robhamilton5057]

this movie is so good, especially for its time!

[@PeterKanfer]

This film could be the greatest collections of imagery in motion picture. Ridley Scott made Blade Runner as an au mage to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. This film could not be made today. Doubtful the audience would understand the genius and the message. Fritz Lang died in 1971 and knew we were headed to self destruction. I hope and pray he was wrong. Since I was a child I have never forgotten seeing this film. it took so many years to restore these beautiful images. this is why i made film my career. 44yrs and never has there been any film so powerful. Blade Runner is it’s stepchild. RIP Fritz Lang and thank you Ridley Scott for your affirmation of why this beautiful film is so special.

[@user-cm7rl4fl3z]

Why would the message be lost on today's audience? The concept of a prosperous society built on the backs of an oppressed and exploited lower class is still one of the most common tropes in cinema and television. Prince of Egypt, 12 years a slave, Elysium, the hunger games, V for vendetta, Arcane, into the badlands; the list goes on. Stop being pretentious and condescending.

[@mjh5437]

The word is Homage,not ""au mage"" lololol😆😅🤣

[@ingowrobel2130]

Schaut prächtig aus . Der Film ist ein reines Kunstwerk❤

[@user-tq2ck4fw3x]

fritz lang was very happy to see your amazing work. wish all the b/w movies be in youre hand

[@rorychivers8769]

So _this_ is where the Cybermen came from

[@leehart1498]

Kind of sad to know that every one of the young people in this movie are all long gone dead.

[@JaeTarot_TV]

와 대박이다..그래픽 기술력 미쳤다;;

[@jaimehudson7623]

Colorizing makes it a whole new film experience. Fantastic! / Is Maria robot C3P0's sister?

[@wellthatwasfun]

Amazing

[@SB5SimulationsFerroviairesEEP]

Merci du Partage! Stéph.

[@user-lv9rg3bf3d]

初めて見たメトロポリスがこの合成着色版でした。以来、オリジナルモノクロ版のビデオテープやDVD、マリアのフィギュアを買い漁った20代の頃の自分。

[@soldierslake2]

looking great , have you done the whole movie ? (somewhere else?)

[@guito2494]

Impressionante!

[@KutWrite]

The color is fine, but the sound is off. For example, the "hiss" of those big horns is not steam, it should be factory whistles denoting the shift change. Also the laboratory's buzzes and crackles are small stuff. Rotwang's mechanism is many thousands of volts, which would bang and zap very loudly.

[@tron3entertainment]

FX people to this day still argue how the rings effect was done. No one really seems to know.

[@tigresuave11]

Wouldn't it have been drawn over the film? Like the lightning effect?

[@tron3entertainment]

@@tigresuave11 - Some seem to believe it was some other method. But yeah, that could just be them proclaiming the "genius" of Fritz's work. There is an excellent chance you are correct.

[@luckenpresseinfo5826]

​@@tigresuave11It dosent't Matter. Noone see the story, what is in this movie. Klaus Schwabs vision 2030.

[@alfredorocca8958]

Bellissimo 👍

[@neriwasa08]

なんかCGよりもすごいの作っていたんだね。

[@hisashi2]

スターウォーズのC3POって、これのオマージュ？

[@mango4558]

Wait there was another colorized metropolis. I am aware of the Giorgio Moroder project where he had done just that and provided a more modern score akin to his style. Is that the version you were referring to?

[@Jericho3030150]

Radio Ga Ga

[@user-pm8ex9qg7c]

와.100년전이라니..미쳤

[@user-fh3mi3jd1v]

All we hear is radio ga ga.

[@deanpd3402]

The satanic pentagram at 1.40

[@Snezit]

1920s futuristic style is sick

[@mjh5437]

Waait until you see American and English cars of the 202-30s! Look up Delahaye cars

[@willwilliamson9580]

and thats the story of how anime was born.

[@kazuyoshisakamoto4096]

I am deeply impressed by the exceptional skill in colorizing garments. Furthermore, this film undoubtedly provided significant inspiration for subsequent science fiction movies.

[@lerkomsmartgf3992]

Отлично! СПАСИБО!!!

[@Gavrik_Korogodskiy]

Looks interesting, as an another moovie

[@TimAlcoser]

@4:21 What is the name of this particular piece of music?

[@Ko-ju3sm]

All we hear is Radio ga-ga Radio goo-goo Radio ga-ga

[@josesantos2603]

It's like my grandmother in a theater trying to show how horrible would be the future.

[@michaelmoser4537]

i would like to see the full movie colorized like this, is that possible?

[@lukasrgl]

I must say i haven't seen this Film by now, but it's little bit similar to Bride of Frankestein or vice versa, if you ask me :)

[@alieninosaka3414]

Прекрасная работа!👍

[@Emanuela9]

I'm still waiting for my flying car and George Jetson one piece suit. How many kids are named Elroy?

[@medavog]

Wow

[@oxizakre362]

❤

[@noneck3099]

When Leeloo is in bandages in The 5th Element...

[@mokiloke]

Wheres the link to the movie?

[@anthonyfrew1571]

yes I meant to say blue ray t

[@danjjakchinguTV]

This movie is good.

[@billycross1798]

Is there a color restoration for the entire movie ?

[@linkfan160]

You've somehow made a movie that's almost 100 years old look only 50 or so years old. Well done!

[@GR-ff8sq]

素晴らしい。

[@user-wf2nj3rp2e]

All we hear is radio ga-ga

[@Игорь_Торопов]

Смотрел его чёрно-белый. Посмотрел бы и в цвете. Весь!

[@user-eh1nx4dy6q]

９０年代にリメイクして上映してたような記憶があります でも、モノクロだったような気がする

[@Mr.Petlover]

should be released in colour😊

[@pepelopez7518]

Muy inspirada en el monstruo de Frankenstein El Prometeo moderno ???

[@OldToby53]

Turn off the sound then play From the Pinnacle to the Pit.....sound and color improvement

[@badlands555]

With color added that robots face os pretty creepy

[@user-gr5iz4ou9g]

4:56 VIP先生

[@Will-Ch]

Ficción antigua del siglo pasado de lo que era una ciudad futurista se sabe que el futuro supero ello una visión del "futuro análoga". Vemos viajes en el tiempo, manipulación del tiempo, energía y sus efectos, robótica, manipulación de la conciencia humana y caos tecnológico.

[@-Katastrophe]

pfff, check out those biplanes! must be a local airshow.

[@samuelsamenstrang6069]

stupid comment

[@jumpstar9000]

Soft disclosure regarding how advanced AI video tools were back then

[@b1r2y3n]

Lots of steam

[@tubergenmotorsports4193]

Is this just parts of the film? Sort of a lot going on. 😆

[@user-bi1fi3hn9r]

すごいなこりゃ。ジョルジョ・モロダー版と組み合わせて欲しいなぁ。

[@thomasdoubting]

Look up Metropolis + Pink Floyds Welcome to the Machine! 🎵🤖

[@Marybaeza-gt7cz]

So awesome!!!

[@pronateceepadm7852]

Good! But the "noir" kind of Fritz Lang is better in original mode, in max, a new renderization its enougth. The movie was made that form, the original is significant in this case.

[@maskedriderkajun]

蒸気機関が最先端当たり前の世界観。

[@kegagani3215]

モロダー版が最高

[@arizonaarmadillo5829]

That's some freaky shit! 🤓