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    Napoléon is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years. It is also...
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  • Napoleon, napoleon, Napoléon, or Napóleon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Napoleon (1769–1821) was a French military leader and emperor. Napoleon...
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    Napoleon's penis was allegedly amputated during an autopsy shortly after his death in 1821. Since then it has passed through several owners, including...
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  • minutes) of the new restoration print of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoléon (1927), edited by Georges Mourier in association with the Cinémathèque Française...
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    hand, Napoleon has become a worldwide cultural icon who symbolises military genius and political power. For example, in the 1927 film Napoléon, young...
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  • major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and the monumental Napoléon (1927). "Abel Gance". Fiches personnalités (in French). Cinémathèque Française...
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  • (1951) The Leopard (1963) Little Women (1933) Metropolis (1927) Modern Times (1936) Napoleon (1927) Nosferatu (1922) Stagecoach (1939) The Wizard of Oz (1939)...
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    short films and newsreels, and feature films, notably Abel Gance's film Napoleon (1927) with a final widescreen sequence in what Gance called Polyvision. Claude...
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    for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927). Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous...
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    every film that was ever made on the subject", including Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927) and the Soviet film series War and Peace, neither of which he liked...
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    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...
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  • devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon, its three-projector format predating Cinerama by 25 years. Polyvision...
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    guerilla warfare in Iberia". napoleon.org. Bonaparte, Napoleon (1927) [1802]. Collins, Frederick M. (ed.). Memoirs of Napoleon I. Translated by Collins,...
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  • viewing the film through the left or right eye of their 3D glasses. Napoleon 1927 Polyvision triptych Macabre 1958 $1,000 life insurance policies given...
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    French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) has a highly polarized legacy—Napoleon is typically loved or hated with few nuances. The large and steadily...
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    The Jackals (1917) The Crushed Idol (1920) Jacques Landauze (1920) Napoléon (1927) Madame Sans-Gêne (1941) "Albert Dieudonné". Movies & TV Dept. The New...
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    Darkness At Noon. In film, Saint-Just has been portrayed by Abel Gance in Napoléon (1927); Jess Barker in Reign of Terror (1949); Patrice Alexsandre in Saint-Just...
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    recordings. Napoleon's 1927 version of "Clarinet Marmalade" was a particular success. The Original Memphis Five split in 1928. During the 1930s, Napoleon mainly...
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    along with Marat and Robespierre, is a secondary character in the 1927 epic Napoléon. His portrayal in the film is somewhat cartoonish, as he is depicted...
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    of film. The system was used to film several scenes of Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927) and La Femme et le Pantin by Jacques de Baroncelli (1928). However...
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  • director Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. Paramount released Old Ironsides (1927), with two sequences...
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    Haussmann's renovation of Paris (category Napoleon III)
    fierce opposition, and he was dismissed by Napoleon III in 1870. Work on his projects continued until 1927. The street plan and distinctive appearance...
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    (1916), The Silent Witness (1930), Fioretta (1928), The Outsider (1924), Napoleon (1927), The Thief (1926), Slaves All (1926), Beau Gallant (1925), Caesar and...
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  • era, including D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) and Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927). Nonlinear film emerged from the French avant-garde[5] in 1924 with...
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    Dimitri Buchowetzki's Danton, 1921 Francine Mussey in Abel Gance's Napoleon, 1927 Gemma Jones in teleplay Poor Bitos, 1965 Édith Scob in Claude Barma's...
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    three-projector technique for both widening and dividing the screen in his 1927 silent epic, Napoléon. The filmmaker Brian De Palma has incorporated split screens into...
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    of this kind was Kevin Brownlow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), featuring a score by Carl Davis. A slightly re-edited and sped-up...
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    Coup of 18 Brumaire (category Napoleon)
    The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and...
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  • Napoléon is the French form of the Italian given name Napoleone. Notable people with the name include: Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), French...
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    titles for White Gold (1927) and The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927). He adapted Richard Connell's 1923 short story "A Friend of Napoleon" but it does not appear...
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