{"id":184,"date":"2008-07-04T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=184"},"modified":"2023-01-12T05:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:11:52","slug":"urban-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Urban Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/missing-reels-from-langs-metropolis-discovered-860006.html\"><q>Missing reels from Lang's <q>Metropolis<\/q> discovered<\/q> by Tony Paterson in <cite>the Independent<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">A print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has been found that includes almost a quarter of the silent film which was thought to have been lost.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/span><br \/><br \/>Yesterday, Anke Wilkening, one of the team of historians, said all but one scene of the full version, last viewed in May 1927, had been rediscovered. <q>Almost everything that had been missing has been found, including two key scenes<\/q>, she said.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>I am not, properly speaking, a <em>fan<\/em> of <cite>Metropolis<\/cite>; I have considered its message to be <em>fascistic<\/em>, and don't see it as plausible that its fascism was an artefact of the scenes in question having been dropped.  But <cite>Metropolis<\/cite> is none-the-less a very <em>important<\/em> film, and I am actively pleased that this material has been found.<\/p> <p>(I went looking for this story after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/lost-metropolis-footage-found.html\">an entry at <span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">the Horrors of It All<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missing reels from Lang's Metropolis discovered by Tony Paterson in the Independent A print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has been found that includes almost a quarter of the silent film which was thought to have been lost.&#91;&#8230;&#93;Yesterday, Anke Wilkening, one of the team of historians, said all but one scene of the full version, last [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6,9,104,4],"tags":[1663,170,152,1661,1660,56,1662],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-brigitte-helm","tag-cinema","tag-fascism","tag-fritz-lang","tag-metropolis","tag-movies","tag-thea-von-harbou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}