>> And then I looked again at the pannel of judges, and concluded that this 
>> is probably because they were probably in their teens when Metropolis 
>> came out in 1874 or whenever it was. :-P
> 
>   Given that the first commercial exhibition of film took place on 1894,
> that's quite unlikely.

 From the look of the short clips they shows, it wouldn't surprise me if 
this film predates commercial filming. :-P

But sure. I just meant that the film is so astonishingly old that almost 
nobody will have ever heard of it. I very much doubt that the date I 
randomly picked out of the air happens to be anywhere near the real 
release date.

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