GIORGIO MORODER LP METROPOLIS SOUNDTRACK 1984 COLUMBIA JS 39526 1ST PRESS

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VG++/NM-                  FIRST PRESSING  (cover/vinyl)
FREDDIE MERCURY   PAT BENATAR   JON ANDERSON   ADAM ANT    BILLY SQUIER   LOVERBOY   BONNIE TYLER   CYCLE V   GIORGIO MORODER
© 1984 CBS Inc. / ℗ 1984 CBS Inc. 
Manufactured and distributed by CBS Records Canada Ltd. 

Giorgio Moroder's score for Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis" (1926). 
comes in gatefold sleeve with lyrics insert.

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): AL 39526
• Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): BL 39526
• Matrix / Runout (Side A): PAL-39526-1G  [FLOWER]  P
• Matrix / Runout (Side B): PBL-39526-1B  [BIRDS IN FLIGHT]  P
• Barcode: 0 7464-39526-1
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• 'BIRDS IN FLIGHT & FLOWER ETCHINGS both denote a laquer cut for master by BRIAN GARDNER

'Metropolis' was originally produced in 1926 by Fritz Lang in Germany. Against his wishes, the film was subsequently shortened for it's American release which left the story disjointed, difficult to comprehend and caused the loss of many scenes, most of which were thought to be lost forever. 
In 1983, Giorgio Moroder bought the rights of the film and restored and produced the 80-minute 1984 re-release. 
The original classical score composed by Gottfried Huppertz was then considered lost. 
By following the original script, the novel of the film, discovered missing pieces of the film and photographs, 'Metropolis' was restored as close to it's original conception as possible. 
In 2005, Wollongong-based historian and politician Michael Organ found 11 lost scenes of the film by examining a copy at the National Film Archive of New Zealand. 
On July 1, 2008, film experts in Berlin announced that a 16 mm reduction negative of the original premiere cut of the film, including almost all of the lost scenes, had been discovered in the archives of the Museo del Cine (film museum) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The find was authenticated by film experts working for Die Zeit. Passed around since 1928 from film distributor to private collector to an art foundation, the Metropolis copy arrived at the Museo del Cine, where it stayed undiscovered in their archives. After hearing an anecdote by the cinema club manager — who years before had been surprised by the length when this copy was screened — the museum's curator and the director of the film department of the Museum of Latin American Art reviewed the film and discovered the missing scenes. The print was in poor condition and required considerable restoration before it was re-premiered in February 2010 for the occasion of the 60th Berlinale. 
'Metropolis' can now be seen complete with it's original score. 
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