thecinematheque:

A Note on the Restoration: Battleship Potemkin has rarely been seen in its intended form since it premiered in Moscow in 1925. When the film travelled west to Germany, the Weimar government, worried about incipient Bolshevism, demanded cuts; this edited version then became the basis of U.S.- and British-release versions, which were subject to further censorship. After World War II, a drastically cut German negative became the basis even for Soviet versions. This all-new restoration, undertaken by German film historians Enno Patalas and Anna Bohn with support from film museums in Berlin, London, and Moscow, restores dozens of missing shots, all 146 original title cards, and some original colour tinting, and features a new recording of Edmund Meisel’s definitive 1926 score, returning Potemkin to a form as close as possible to Eisenstein’s bold original vision.

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN screens tonight (Sept 17) and tomorrow (18) at 6:30.