Metropolis Experimental Outtakes —Eugen Schüfftan (1927)

Synopsis

An experiment by Eugen Schüfftan, who created the special effects for Fritz Lang's Metropolis, turning footage of a love scene from the film into a Futurist-style study of motion using optical printing with partially transparent mirrors. Found on an unlabeled reel at the F.W. Murnau Foundation by Kurt Ralske in 2010.

Synopsis, reviewed

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