[METROPOLIS]. A group of materials related to the motion picture Metropolis.

A group of 6 items related to the 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis, including an 8 x 10 in. photograph of actress Brigitte Helm in costume as the iconic Maschinenmensch SIGNED BY HELM, a typescript page from an unproduced film treatment written by Forrest J. Ackerman entitled Metropolis 5000 and intended as a sequel to the original film with accompanying notations in Ackerman's hand and four additional pages of typewritten notes, a photograph of Ackerman with director Fritz Lang, and an additional three photographs of Ackerman posing with materials related to the film.

The effect that Metropolis had on a young Forrest J. Ackerman cannot be overstated; throughout his life Ackerman would cite Metropolis, along with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem, and Die Nibelungen, as one of the great films which inspired his love of science fiction. Later in life Ackerman would write an introduction to a reprinting of the original 1925 novel by Thea von Harbou on which the film was based, illustrated with photographs and items from Ackerman's own collection.
This lot is located in Chicago.