《拿破仑》(Napoléon，阿贝尔·冈斯，1927年/235分钟/黑白。耗费几十万米胶片和四年时间拍摄，尽管如此，这部影片“只不过是一部未完成的巨大作品的序幕”，某些片断需将三块银幕拼接起来才能放映，常见是1935年的有声版)A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.