Abel Gance
See also: Abel (homonymy)
Abel Gance (October 25th 1889 - November 10th 1981) is a Réalisateur, producing Scénariste and French, born with Paris, deceased with Paris at the 92 years age.
Biography
One of the fathers of the modern language, it counts among the three larger realizers of the history of the cinema with D.W.Griffith in the USA and S.M.Eisenstein for the USSR. He affirms himself since 1918 like an innovative scenario writer, whose style impresses lyricism slices on the production of the time. I show and the Wheel make of him a realizer high-speed motorboat, while Napoleon is one of the last great successes French of the Silent film. But the serious financial failure of the end of the world breaks its career. It is brought to turn of less personal films and, although its career counts business successes like Lucrèce Borgia or the Tower of Nesle or Austerlitz (1960), it will never find the prestige which was it his. Kurosawa and Coppola never hid their admiration for Gance.
It had as secretary and assistant Nelly Kaplan.
Realizer: selective catalog of films
- 1916 : the madness of Doctor Tube
- 1917: Barberousse
- 1918 : the Tenth symphony
- 1918: MATER Dolorosa
- 1919: I show
- 1923: the Wheel
- 1924: the Help!!
- 1927 : Napoleon
- 1931: the end of the world
- 1934: the Lady with the camellias
- 1935: the Novel of a poor young man
- 1935: Lucrèce Borgia
- 1935 : Jerome Perreau, hero of the barricades
- 1935: Napoleon (altered version of film of 1927)
- 1936: the Robber of women
- 1936: a great love of Beethoven
- 1938: I show
- 1939: Louise
- 1940: Paradise lost
- 1941: Venus plugs
- 1943: the Captain Crashes to pieces
- 1953: July Fourteen (short film)
- 1953: Light and the invention of the cinematograph
- 1953: Light (for television)
- 1954: the Tower of Nesle
- 1956: Magirama (with Nelly Kaplan)
- 1960: Austerlitz
- 1963 : Cyrano and of Artagnan
- 1966: Marie Tudor (1966) (for television)
- 1967: Valmy (TV) (for television finished by Jean Cherasse)
- 1971: Bonaparte and the revolution (altered version of the Napoleon of 1927 and 1935)
Technical sides
Abel Gance works out in 1925 with André Debrie a film process with three cameras per juxtaposition, 40 years before the Cinérama which gives a width of image three times higher than the conventional format and allows also an account in three different images: the Polyvision. See film of 1927: Napoleon, with: Aspects techniques.He developed as from 1937 with the optician Pierre Angénieux the optical Pictographe apparatus to replace the decorations by simple models or photographs, and which is at the origin of the incrustation TV of aujourd'hui.
Lastly, in 1929/1932, it always deposited a patent the Sound Perspective with André Debrie, ancestor of Stereophony. In 1934, it wired for sound its film Napoleon, with this procédé.
Its last work before its death concerned the Virtual Image.
See too
- Street Abel-Gance with Paris
- Article on Abel Gance on Runmovies.be
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