Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master.
HTML5 webm https://scifi.fish/assets/metropolis/Metropolis_(1927).webm.720p.vp9.webm Metropolis. On 1 January 2023, the film's American reserved copyright expired, thereby entering the film into the public domain.
The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: > "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart".
Osamu Tezuka’s manga (1949) and Rintarō/Otomo’s anime (2001)
# Huppertz – Original Score (Public Domain Composition)
- Huppertz – Metropolis, Op.29 (IMSLP work page: scores & arrangements) 
- Piano Reduction (PD) – “Complete Score” on the IMSLP
- Suite for Piano (Eibl) – CC-BY 4.0 on the IMSLP
# The New Pollutants – Metropolis Rescore (Not Free Culture)
- Bandcamp album (name-your-price)
- SoundCloud sampler/playlist
- opening track CC
# Assets
metropolis
# See
- Scifi Robots and onetab
- Metropolis and Early Robot Illustrations
- Metropolis Music - onetab
- Robots of the World! Arise! and Mari Wolf
- The Steam Man and The First Robot
- Zadoc P. Dederick and Steam Man of Newark