OK, I've started the project officially. I'm 8 minutes into it. It's a bit of a challenge since they are actually almost two different movies. Different takes with different lengths. I'm actually surprised that Moroder has bits of scenes that aren't in the restored version. A few frames here and there. I've had to adapt rather than do frame to frame exact work. It helps that the synching doesn't need to be precise since it's silent and only needs to match some cues. It kind of sucks having to cut material, including my favorite shots in the garden with the nudes. Perhaps I can include them in a longer cut later. Also disappointing is that the CD soundtrack has completely different mixes of the songs. I wanted to use them for the longer version. The soundtrack album is more dance music.

Anyway, here's a sneak preview divx of the original version and the new version of a scene. It's a zip file about 45 MB.

Metropolis