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Triple Screen — Polyvision
Original title: トリプルエクラン
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For this film, Gance himself devised a projection system called “Polyvision” (or “triple écran [three screens]”), projecting footage shot with 3 cameras onto 3 screens. Sometimes one image spread across the three screens, and sometimes separate images appeared on each of the three; used in several scenes, including the final departure for Italy, it achieved an overwhelming spectacle. However, “The Jazz Singer” (1927) was released in America in the same year as “Napoleon,” and with it cinema entered the era of talkies. Investment in large-screen systems was neglected, and consequently “Napoleon” was almost never screened in its complete form (in America this epic, with a running time of 5 hours, was merely shortened to 1 hour 20 minutes and released reprinted in a standard version; in Japan, too, only a 17.5-millimeter version was released). From the film Napoleon.
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3台のカメラで撮影した映像を3面のスクリーンに映写する〈ポリビジョン〉(または〈トリプル･エクラン(三面スクリーン)〉)と命名された映写方式がこの映画のためにガンス自身によって考案され，あるときは一つのイメージが三つの画面にひろがり，またあるときは三つのスクリーンに別々のイメージが映し出され，ラストのイタリア出撃のシーンをはじめ，いくつかのシーンで用いられて圧倒的なスペクタクル効果を上げた。 しかし，《ナポレオン》と同年にアメリカでは《ジャズ･シンガー》(1927)が公開され，それとともに映画はトーキー時代に突入し，大スクリーン方式への投資は顧みられず，そのため《ナポレオン》はほとんど完全な形で上映されることがなく(アメリカでは上映時間5時間のこの巨編が1時間20分に短縮され，スタンダード版に焼き直されて公開されただけであり，日本でも17.5ミリ版が公開されたにすぎなかった)，映画ナポレオンより。
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Source updated 2024-09-30 · Snapshot 2026-10-08
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