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Loading... Napoléon (original 1927; edition 1990)by Abel Gance (Director/Screenwriter)
Work InformationNapoleon [1927 film] by Abel Gance (Director/Screenwriter) (1927)
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This book contains the original text of Abel Gance's Napoleon, the 1927 film which was subsequently lost and reconstructed by Kevin Brownlow 50 years later. No library descriptions found. |
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The English Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film) gives a fairly comprehensive summary of the scenes starting with the young Buonaparte at Brienne College and ending with the Italian campaign 1796. (The location of the Montenotte battle site can be revisited here: http://www.historydata.com/places/montenotte.php ).
In a BBC Radio4 broadcast on Sunday 13th Nov. 2016 (available as a podcast) Kevin Brownlow talks about his 50 year quest to restore Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon to its present five and half hours, and about his still continuing search for missing scenes and the composer Carl Davis talks about his approach and the difficulties he faced and still faces.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081tdpf or http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b081tdpf
I have chosen a poster that was drawn by Kevin Brownlow’s father for one of the first screenings of some film material he arranged for friends (https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-abel-gances-napoleon )
Other interesting websites:
http://www.brentonfilm.com/news/kevin-brownlows-napoleon-to-make-long-awaited-de...
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/N/Napoleon1927.html
and http://www.silentera.com/info/napoleonRestoration.html ( )