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Napoléon (on-screen title: Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance") is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced and directed by Abel Gance, that tells the story of Napoleon's early years.
Abel Gance (French:; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and actor.A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).
A triptych scene of Napoleon (1927), showing its two vertical seams. Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon, its three-projector format predating Cinerama by 25 years. [1]
Abel Gance (French:, 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor.A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and the monumental Napoléon (1927).
Napoleon (1927) [9] [10] directed by Abel Gance starring Albert Dieudonné; The Birth of a Nation (1915) directed by D. W. Griffith starring Lillian Gish and Henry B Walthall; Greed (1924) directed by Eric Von Stroheim with ZaSu Pitts and Gibson Gowland; Nosferatu (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau starring Max Schreck
A chyron that appears at the end of “Napoleon” — after two and a half hours of turgid, grime-encrusted spectacle — informs that France’s self-anointed emperor oversaw 61 battles, listing ...
Annabella's chance to enter films came when her father entertained a film producer, who gave her a small part in Abel Gance's classic Napoléon (1927). She was not critically acclaimed until she starred in René Clair 's Le Million (1931), and over the following decade, she established herself as one of France's popular cinema actresses.
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