Napolean is an epic silent French film written and produced by Abel Gance in 1927. The plot of this film is based on Napoleon Bonaparte's life. But that is not why this film is important. Gance's use of technology to produce/direct/edit this film was ahead of his time. He used a technique called "Polyvision" which is now known as Cinerama. Basically, Gance used a triptych sequence projected onto a screen, this was the early version of what we now know as widescreen.
Just amazing that this is where widescreen/Cinerama first started.
(IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/)
Kevin Brownlow discussing Abel Gance
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