Napoléon (1927 film)
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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.
Poster for smaller format rural France release, ca. 1928
Actor Albert Dieudonné played Napoleon
French actress Gina Manès played Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's wife.
Abel Gance wrote, produced, directed, and acted in the film.
70 mm film
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70 mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge for motion picture photography, with a negative area nearly 3.5 times as large as the standard 35 mm motion picture film format. As used in cameras, the
Napoléon (1927 film)
…each other. This is considered to be the best-known of the film's several innovative techniques. Though American filmmakers began experimenting with 70mm widescreen (such as Fox Grandeur) in 1929, widescreen did not take off until CinemaScope was introduced in 1953. Polyvision was only used for the final…
A 70 mm film strip with a human hand for scale
Faded vintage 70 mm positive film with four magnetic strips containing six-channel stereophonic sound