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Gance, Abel
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Gance, Abel (1889–1981)

French film director. He was known for his grandiose melodramas and historical epics. Napoléon (1927) was one of the most ambitious silent epic films. It featured colour tinting and triple-screen sequences, as well as multiple-exposure shots, and helped further the technological and aesthetic development of the film medium.

Among his other films are J'Accuse/I Accuse! (1918), La Roue/The Wheel (1922), Un grand amour de Beethoven/The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1936), and Austerlitz (1960). Gance was also a pioneer in stereophonic sound.



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This historic, 1938 black-and-white film by the noted French director, Abel Gance, vividly brings Charpentier's portrait of the working class in 19th-century Paris to life.
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Whether Munk had any first-hand awareness of such films or not is not clear, but he had already made a short about railwaymen (Kolejarskie Slowo, 1953) and may simply have been tempted to capture once more shots of the railyards at night with clouds of steam enveloping the looming forms of the locomotives that years ago had captivated Abel Gance in La Roue (1923) or Renoir in La Bete humaine (1938).
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