Metropolis (1927) English Version Public Domain Film in the United States as of January 4, 2023.

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Metropolis
by Fritz Lang

Publication date 1927
Topics Drama, Sci-Fi
Publisher Universum Film (UFA)

Title: Metropolis
Summary: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Production Company: Universum Film (UFA)
Release Date: 13 March 1927 (USA)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he is horrified to find an underground world of workers who apparently run the machinery that keeps the Utopian world above ground functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, John Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is called Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator who will act as the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in their struggle for a better life. But when John learns of what Maria is advocating and that Freder has joined their cause, with the assistance of an old colleague. an inventor called ...
Length 153 min
Addeddate 2013-12-31 16:05:00
Aspect_ratio 1.33 : 1
Director Fritz Lang
Genre Drama,Sci-Fi
Identifier Metropolis1927_201312
Imdb https://www.imdb.com//title/tt0017136/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
Release_date 13 March 1927 (USA)
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Metropolis 1927 English Version

Topics Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927, Sci-Fi, drama, public domain, movies, silent, films, silent movies, silent films
Language English

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the
city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a
working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate
their differences.
Addeddate 2014-01-24 21:52:35
Color black & white
Identifier Metropolis1927EnglishVersion
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Sound silent

Metropolis

"Public Domain Day 2023". Duke University School of Law. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
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"Public Domain Day 2023". Duke University School of Law. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1927, films released in 1927, and other works published in 1927, entered the public domain in 2023. Unpublished works whose authors died in 1952 entered the public domain.

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On New Years Day 2023, the film's United States copyright expired, entering the public domain in that country.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)
The American copyright for Metropolis lapsed in 1953, which led to a proliferation of versions being released on video. Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U.S. copyright was restored in 1996 by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act;[103] the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged, but was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012's Golan v. Holder. This had the effect of restoring the copyright in the work as of 1 January 1996.
Under current EU copyright law, the film will remain under copyright in Germany and the rest of the European Union until the end of 2046, 70 years after Fritz Lang's death.[note 2] Under current U.S. copyright law, Metropolis entered the public domain on 1 January 2023; the U.S. copyright limit for films of its age is 95 years from publication per the Copyright Term Extension Act.

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Cases setting legal precedent for this Public Domain Motion Picture:

"Golan v. Ashcroft: Compaint". cyber.law.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 19 April 2003. Retrieved 19 February 2016

Related questions:
Is Metropolis in the public domain?
The Fritz Lang classic, Metropolis, has just entered the public domain. It is now not under copyright in the USA, although in the EU, it will remain so until 2046. The silent movie, released in 1927, is one of the first science fiction films ever created.Feb 5, 2023

https://www.cultureslate.com/explained/metropolis-enters-the-public-domain-and-what-it-means-for-this-classic-film

An extension was never filed for Metropolis (which was not unusual for foreign films), and the film passed into the public domain in the US in 1953. Despite international treaties and multiple court cases stemming from them, Metropolis would stay in the public domain in the US for most of the rest of the 20th century. It finally took a 6-2 vote by a body no less august than the US Supreme Court to definitely pull Metropolis out of the public domain. (Ironically, it had been film and commercial composers who had challenged the decision the longest because of the frequent re-use of classic film scores for new works.) Rights for the film are currently held by the F.W. Murnau Foundation, which preserves films from the first 70 years of German cinema.
As the legal status of the film has shifted, so has the film itself. Moroder’s 1984 version has always been heavily criticized and is widely regarded as lapsed by future discoveries. A 1987 restoration project by the Munich Film Archive managed to uncover notes from Nazi files indicating the original inter-titles and providing a new source on what Lang’s original cut of the film may have contained. Twenty-one years later, a complete negative was found in Buenos Aires, which included 25 minutes of Metropolis that hadn’t been seen in more than 80 years. The final restoration, dubbed “The Complete Metropolis,” has a running time of 148 minutes, about five minutes shy of the version shown at its 1927 premiere.
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Metropolis (1927) as it is presented here cannot be blocked in the United States as shown above from recent Court Case Judgment, United States Copyright Law and Duke University School of Law.

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Metropolis 1927 English Version

Topics Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927, Sci-Fi, drama, public domain, movies, silent, films, silent movies, silent films
Language English

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the
city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a
working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate
their differences.
Addeddate 2014-01-24 21:52:35
Color black & white
Identifier Metropolis1927EnglishVersion
Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.4.2
Sound silent

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