when did the first one get released?
1927
Metropolis (1927 film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. 
what does 'ace books' mean? A publisher of science fiction and fantasy books who founded it? Aaron A. Wyn name some of the famous books they have published? William Colt MacDonald's "Bad Man's Return", P. G. Wodehouse's "Quick Service what is the genre of the latter work? UNANSWERABLE when was it published? 4 October 1940 what sort of struggles did they face financially? After the death of Wyn, the company grew financially overextended, failing to pay its authors reliably. do they publish books of different genres? Yes, of science fiction, mysteries and westerns combined,  lurid juvenile delinquent novels what are the characteristics of the first one? is a genre of speculative fiction with concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel and extraterrestrial life. can you give a few literary examples of the same? "New Atlantis", "The States and Empires of the Sun", "Gulliver's Travels" who wrote the last one? Jonathan Swift what is it about? It satirises both human nature and the "travellers' tales". who is the protagonist in it? Lemuel Gulliver where did he travel to? Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Houyhnhnm was it ever made into a film? UNANSWERABLE what does the second work deal with? UNANSWERABLE can you list a few movies made in this genre? "Metropolis", "Godzilla", "Planet of the Apes",  "Star Wars"
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Metropolis (1927 film) [SEP] Introduction
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, "Metropolis" is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master.