Fritz Lang's Metropolis Whole at Last! (Prop discussion)

[Kylash]

OK, I've come to the conclusion that this map is indeed, made of individual pieces and then taped (or glued) together. I'm leaning toward tape. I've circled several places where the drawing lines do not line up with each other, which they would if it were one big piece, folded.

If it is taped, it is very thin tape... 1/8 or maybe 3/16 inch.

yeah, the offset you see between the pieces proves they are cut up and separated out by the spacing you see between them, if it was tape covering the map, those lines would all line up pefectly, or you could at least follow each line to the next.

 

[deck5]

My Yoshiwara flyer and map of the catacombs, with the money from earlier in this thread.

 

[Mike J.]

Nice job on the map and Yoshiwara flyer.

 

[deck5]

Nice job on the map and Yoshiwara flyer.

Thanks! Oh, and one more --

 

[nick daring]

Looking at the pictures of the map I think it's not taped but the paper pieces are glued to a piece of fabric so that the map can be folded repeated without being damaged like paper would.

You can see a little bit of fraying on the bottom right along the edge similar to how fabric would fray along a cut edge.

 

[Mike J.]

Yeah, I thought we already covered that.

 

[nick daring]

Oops! I just saw the last few comments mentioning using tape and wasn't aware that cloth was mentioned earlier.

 

[deck5]

I went with a cloth backing for my version.

 

[deck5]

Did up a little display with a dollar store shadow box picture frame.

 

[Mike J.]

Nice. I came across one of my Metropolis banknotes just a few days ago while cleaning up around the house. I think I did them in Photoshop at the time, which horrifies me now

It has a foxing on it, so it's going into my wallet, for old times' sake.

 

[maxthue]

Anybody know who have the rights for the movie now?

 

[Rotwang]

Technically the film is in the public domain. But the current restoration is copyrighted by the Murnau Stiftung. The robot is copyrighted under the heirs of Walther Schultze Mittendorff.