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The Film File
What do Napoleon Bonaparte, Doris Day, and the Incredible Hulk have in common, apart from the fact that they all look great in pink? One answer is that each has been deemed worthy of a split image. Abel Gance's silent "Napoleon" (1927) was designed to be projected onto three screens, in a process known as Polyvision; at the climax of the film, the screens turn red, white, and blue respectively, which may not be subtle but which nonetheless, with a live orchestra, retains the power to overwhelm. For our other contenders, the multiple shots were sliced and squashed onto a single screen, the act of compression, in every case, ...