Abel Gance
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Entertainment, Entertainers, Films, Movies, Motion Pictures
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Gance was the first French filmmaker to recognize and realize the full spectacular effect of the cinema, by means of new techniques of editing and montage and by inventions that advanced the art and scope of the cinema.
Early Life
Abel Gance was born in Paris on October 25, 1889, the son of Adolphe and Françoise Perthon Gance, and was educated first at the Collège du Chantilly and later at the Collège Chaptal in Paris. At the age of eighteen, he became an actor at the Théâtre du Parc in Brussels, then a playwright. By 1909, he had...
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