{"id":25138,"date":"2011-01-21T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25138"},"modified":"2011-01-22T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:01:31","slug":"langs-metropolis-the-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25138","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis visuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters009.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cinematography for Fritz Lang&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolis_%28film%29\"target=\"_blank\">Metropolis<\/a><\/em> (1927) was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Citroen\">Paul Citroen&#8217;s<\/a> 1923 <em>Metropolis<\/em> photomontage <\/a>(above). <\/p>\n<p>And so was Boris Bilinsky&#8217;s poster for the film (below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters001.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commercial artists took some liberties with how they created visual promotion for <em>Metropolis<\/em> &#8211; redrawing or recreating the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maschinenmensch\">&#8216;maschinenmensch&#8217;<\/a> (machine-man) and the modernist cityscapes. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters008.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most famous of the bunch, the golden Heinz Schulz-Neudamm version (above), set a record in 2005. One of four existing copies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxist.com\/2005\/11\/16\/original-metropolis-poster-fetches-690-000-at-auction\/\"target=\"_blank\">sold at auction<\/a> for $690,000. Highest price paid for a motion picture broadside.<\/p>\n<p>More posters below. And more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters003.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters004.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters005.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters006.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelorgan.org.au\/Metroja.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MetropolisPosters007.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Metropolis visuals\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25138\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinematography for Fritz Lang&#8217;s Metropolis (1927) was inspired by Paul Citroen&#8217;s 1923 Metropolis photomontage (above). And so was Boris Bilinsky&#8217;s poster for the film (below). Commercial artists took some liberties with how they created visual promotion for Metropolis &#8211; redrawing or recreating the &#8216;maschinenmensch&#8217; (machine-man) and the modernist cityscapes. 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