
Only three of these are known to survive. They were handed out to
audience members at Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21st 1927 at the
movie's UK premiere. For those who don't know... this was (among other
things) the inspiration behind Queen's "Radio Gaga" video. Enjoy the nostalgia
B3tans :-D

( , Wed 11 Jul 2012, 21:45, Reply)

It's also a precursor to transhumanism.
imjussayin
( , Wed 11 Jul 2012, 21:56, Reply)

I have watched it precisely once and never will again.
Ditto battleship potemkin.
( , Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:14, Reply)

and one of my favourite films. :-)
It's quite amusing to read how much H.G. Wells hated the film - "It gives in one eddying concentration almost every possible foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general served up with a sauce of sentimentality that is all its own."
( , Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:22, Reply)

i dread to think what he would make of modern science fiction films
( , Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:10, Reply)

However I rather liked the anime version from a few years back. Mainly it has to be said for the rather fantastic sequence where the Ziggurat is destroyed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsZBX2RhDZE
( , Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:42, Reply)