This show of 150 works is drawn from the Metropolitan's own extensive collection of Netherlandish and German prints of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The German print of the film on the DVD is missing small parts of the film and runs at 121 minutes.
No original German nitrate prints of the film are known to still exist.
As usual, the Alice Adams Gallery of Chicago has mounted an exceptional display of early modern Russian, German and Austrian prints and drawings.
Tying in with the loan exhibition, Nick Stogdon will be showing sixteenth-century German prints by Altdorfer, Lautensack and Hirschvogel, among others.
Gallery I is devoted to German prints that range in date from around 1450 to the 1980's.
In some German two-block prints, the keyblock (or "line block") was printed in black and the tone block or blocks had flat areas of colour.
And its language has indeed been simplified in the subtitles that accompany this German print.
Said to be the most ambitious German prints of the Romantic period, these paeans to Nature and the cosmos depict Morning, Day, Evening and Night.
The most comprehensive source on the case is a pamphlet of 16 pages published in London during 1590, the translation of a German print of which no copies have survived.