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Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)

Name: Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1927
Duration: 1 h 1 min

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Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) is a 62-minute documentary that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Walter Ruttmann.

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About Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis or Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund. Much of the motion in the film, and many of the scene transitions, are built around the motion of trains and streetcars.

Events are arranged to simulate the passage of a single day. Shots and scenes are cut together based on relationships of image, motion, point of view, and thematic content. At times, a sort of non-narrative commentary can be implied, as in edits that juxtapose workers entering a factory with cattle being beaten and driven into a corral. The five-reel film is divided into five acts, and each act is announced through a title card at the beginning and end.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Walter Ruttmann
Country: Germany

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1927 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Silent. 2026-10-10: replaced a YTS.AM piracy-group Blu-ray rip with a 2006 upload in IA's silent_films collection (low resolution, 320x240).
Source: Internet Archive

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