thefilmbook - edited by Benjamin B » Metropolis https://thefilmbook.net Cinema art & technology edited by Benjamin B - version 3 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:38:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Shooting the METROPOLIS flood scene https://thefilmbook.net/2013/08/shooting-the-metropolis-flood-scene/ https://thefilmbook.net/2013/08/shooting-the-metropolis-flood-scene/#comments Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:45:10 +0000 https://thefilmbook.net/?p=685 [...]]]> Metropolis flood scene-

This photo gives a feeling of the ambition & scale of this huge 1927 production directed by Fritz Lang, who is holding the megaphone on the left.

Note the 4 small cameras at work.

Metropolis was shot in what is now Babelsburg Studios near Berlin.

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In this interview, Lang states that he didn’t use more than 300 extras on the film.

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