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Auction History Result 6w061 NAPOLEON French souvenir program book '27 Abel Gance classic, incredibly rare 1st version! Date Sold 5/5/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage French Movie Souvenir Program Book (measures 9 3/4" x 13" [25 x 33 cm]; 26 pages) (Learn More) Napoleon, the classic 1927 (released in the U.S. in 1929) Abel Gance French Napoleonic War silent biographical historical military melodrama (about the life of Napoleon, starting from when he was a young boy, and carrying through to when he became Emperor) starring Albert Dieudonne (in the title role as the famous French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte), Paul Amiot, Annabella (in her first film), Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daele, and Abel Gance (as Louis Saint-Just). Note that this movie was the masterpiece of director Abel Gance. It included "triptych" (triple screen) images that predated Cinerama by 30 years, and it is really a remarkable movie on every level. But sadly, it was a silent movie, and sound had just begun, and the movie was not successful, and Gance removed it from circulation and was thought to have destroyed the original movie. In 1981, Francis Ford Coppola financed a restoration by Kevin Brownlow, a silent-film historian and filmmaker. It was presented in Great Britain with a new musical score by Carl Davis. Coppola's father, Carmine, composed (and adapted other period classical pieces) the score that was used for the U.S. and worldwide (except Great Britain) exhibitions. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this program was first released in France at the Theatre National de L'Opera in Paris in April 1927, and this is the program from that historic very first release. There is an almost identical program when a slightly revised version of the film was shown later that year, and that version has "Gaumont-Metro-Goldwyn" on the top of the cover instead of the "Theatre National de L'Opera". There are two other important differences. This first program has a credit on the title page that reads "Musique et Adaptation D'Arthur Honegger", which is not present on the MGM program, and also, the MGM program has a page of press release comments (those comments were from people who saw the original premiere). So not only is this a wonderful "country of origin" program from this most classic French movie, but it is also the incredibly rare first version of it from the first showing of the movie. Also note that we have pictured the front cover and four interior 2-page spreads from this program. You can use these images to determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are some other pages you are not seeing. Condition: good to very good. The covers were made slightly larger than the interior pages (not unusual with programs like this) and there are tears and a few tiny bits of paper loss around the edges of both covers (which often happens in these cases). There are some scuffs and stains scattered on the covers in the blank areas. There was a snipe glued over the top of the cover of the program (over the "Theatre National de L'Opera" credit), obviously because it was reused at a later time. The first interior page has scuffing around the edges, and the other interior pages have some minor scuffing, but are generally in pretty nice condition. See our images to get a good sense of the condition of this extremely rare program. Learn More about condition grades 
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