#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.

[horrorme]

London After Midnight, 1927

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of the 1920s

[weirdlookindog]

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Brigitte Helm - Metropolis (1927)

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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

[theglitterdome]

Clara Bow in the 1927 silent film Hula.

[razzamult]

Metropolis (1927), saw this and was reminded of discourse on AI

[poppingmary]

Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” - 1927

[the-marquis]

Abel Gance as Saint-Just.

Napoleon 1927.

[24601orwhatever]

ALBERT DIEUDONNÉ (+ vladimir roudenko) AS NAPOLEON

Impossible n'est pas français 📷: napoleon 1927

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish as “Letty” in The Wind, 1927

[weirdlookindog]

Prelude (1927)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Metropolis - art by Ken Taylor (2013)