#1927 movies

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

August: Fantasy and Sci-fi

Metropolis / Brigitte Helm as the Maschinenmensch (robot)

Does this really count as a costume? Is it more of a prosthetic? I'm really not sure how to classify it, but it is definitely iconic--and hugely influential on design in movies ever since.

I found an article with a fascinating description of how the suit was made: "The robot, whose construction took weeks, was made of 'plastic wood', a kneadable substance made of wood, hardening quickly when exposed to the air, allowing itself to be modeled like organic wood. They first took a plaster cast mould of Brigitte Helm from head to toe. Parts resembling a knight’s armour, cut out of Hessian, were covered with 2 mm substance, flattened by means of a kitchen pastry roller. This was then stuck on to the plaster Brigitte Helm, like a shoemaker pulls leather over his block. When the material had hardened, the parts were polished, the contours cut out.... Finally, cellon varnish mixed with solver bronze, and applied with a spray gun, gave the costume its genuinely metallic appearance which even seemed convincing when looked at from close range."

I'm all the more impressed after learning that Brigitte Helm was only eighteen when she played the triple role of the robot, Maria, and "False Maria"! And I love the behind-the-scenes picture of her getting a drink while a hair dryer is applied to the suit.

[imkeepinit]

Movie poster by József Bottlik for the 1927 Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft motion picture Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang.

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish as "Letty” in The Wind, 1927

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of the 1920s

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Brigitte Helm - Metropolis (1927)

[389]

Horst Von Harbou - Metropolis (1927)

[cametotheshowinsd]

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | TAYLOR SWIFT

A debrief, a detailed rewinding For the purpose of warning For the sake of reminding As you might all unfortunately recall I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity Which explains my plea here today of temporary insanity

[weirdlookindog]

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927)

[the-marquis]

Abel Gance as Saint-Just.

Napoleon 1927.

[bixels]

Your au takes place in the 1920’s. I know your au has rarijack, are there any issues because of them being lesbians or is that not really a problem (the general existence of cadence may have caused people to be more accepting sooner idk)

Not really a problem. This AU's supposed to be fun, it wouldn't be fun having to write 90% of characters and settings as vehemently and violently anti-gay. At the very least, bigotry still exists, but social progress is more similar to the 2010s, where queerness is more normalized.

[makeitquietly]

Oliver Hardy in Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)

[gameraboy2]

Behind the scenes of Metropolis (1927)

[imkeepinit]

Movie poster by an unknown artist for the 1927 First National Pictures release The Gorilla, a film that is now considered lost. The film was based on a 1925 play about a man committing murders while dressed as a gorilla. It was remade in 1930 (also considered lost) and again in 1939. First National Pictures began business as a distribution company in 1917 and starting producing motion pictures in 1924. Warner Brothers aquired control over the studio in 1928, and it was dissolved in 1936.

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish as “Letty” in The Wind, 1927

[24601orwhatever]

ALBERT DIEUDONNÉ (+ vladimir roudenko) AS NAPOLEON

Impossible n'est pas français 📷: napoleon 1927

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Metropolis - art by Ken Taylor (2013)