FrameThrower · Actors · Abel Gance
Abel Gance
3 films · 168 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1923–1928
Born 25 October 1889 · Paris, France · died 10 November 1981
Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).
He was born in Paris in 1889. In 1909, he acted in his first film. He also wrote scenarios, and often sold them to Gaumont. During this period he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, fatal at the time, but he recovered. In 1911, with some friends he established a production company, Le Film Français, and began directing his own films.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 168 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1923–1928
- BAFTA Fellowship1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 168 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Abel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day — the look of the work Abel takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 168 frames from Abel Gance's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.