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Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

napoleon_movie_poster

An extract of our prints currently available:
'Napoleon' Abel Gance's epic masterpeice

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Movie Poster for Abel Gance's 1927 masterpeice Napoléon
for the January 23,24,25 1981 performance at Radio City Music Hall
Presented by Francis Ford Coppola, with musical score performed by the American Symphony Orchestra under Carmine Coppola.
Offset lithograph, dry mounted, glazed, gilt-wood frame.
Image: 38 1/2 x 24 3/4" (97.8 x 62.9 cm.) Frame: 39 3/4 x 26 1/4"
Ref. TJ 4 /DLN/ V.ande >ROL      PRICE CODE  B         Click for price guide

Another copy  March 15-20 1982 performances O'Keefe Centre, Toronto Ref.KL2(172)/DLN/dn.ands>ELN   PRICE CODE B


Napoléon is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most innovative films of the silent era.

This 1927 epic, which was both significant and innovative in the history of movie making, starred Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon, who's image appears on this collectable poster. The film was restored in 1981 after twenty years' work by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.
In pace with Brownlow's efforts to restore the movie to something close to its 1927 incarnation, two scores were prepared in 1979–1980; one by Carl Davis in the UK and one by Carmine Coppola in the US.

Beginning in late 1979, Carmine Coppola composed a score incorporating themes taken from various sources such as Beeethoven, Berliotz, Smetana, Mendelssohn and Handel. He composed three original themes: an heroic one for Napoleon, a love theme for scenes with Josephine and a Buonaparte family theme. He also used French revolutionary songs that were supplied by Davis in early 1980 during a London meeting between Coppola, Davis and Brownlow.Two such songs were "Ah! ça ira! ' and La Carmagnole. Coppola returns to "La Marseillaise" as the finale.

Coppola's score was heard first in New York at Radio City Music Hall. Performed for very nearly four hours, accompanying a film projected at 24 frames per second as suggested by producer Robert A. Harris. Coppola included some sections of music carried solely by an organist to relieve the 60-piece orchestra. Gance thought of expanding the frame by using three cameras next to each other. This is probably the most famous of the film's several innovative techniques. Wikipedia