The 24 hour clocks in Metropolis have been redesigned, with only 10 hours on their dial.The work shift (divided into day and night of 10 hours each, in the 20-hour day) changes at the end of ten hours, signaled by steam whistles blowing.Connor fired grenades at the T-800, successfully burning off its flesh-tissue covering, to reveal its metallic skeletal frame.[High skyscrapers and traffic in a bustling, crowded city was a novelty in 1928.] From a high angle, crowds of scurrying pedestrians cross the city block at W 45th.Cars and bus traffic overwhelm the horoughfare.An endless movement of people, cars, vehicles, and elevated trains speed by.Smokestacks spew plumes of white smoke from skyscraper tops and from tugboats in the harbor.The camera moves further and further back to encompass the exhilarating scope and vastness of the city, filled with beehives of workers.Pedestrians, office workers on lunch break, and Christmas shoppers mingle together in the long view.Slowly, the camera zooms closer and picks out a young, white-faced Mime (Robert Shields), dressed in a black-and-white drum major""s costume, who imitates and parodies unsuspecting bypassers.He""s a mighty set man when his mind""s made up.Even you can""t change him.Now he""ll be headin"" South.Mind he don""t stomp on you on the way out.Groot is Dunson""s steadfast friend - succinctly but incompletely stated:Colonel, me and Dunson...well, it""s me and Dunson.By leaving, Tom has decided to abandon his young, pretty sweetheart Fen (Coleen Gray) with plans to send for her later.