Performance of Abel Gance’s 1927 masterpiece Napoleon, September 24, 2007
at the Coliseum in Rome with the Triptych being shown on an 8.5 x 33 meter screen. The screen was built next to the Arch of Constantine on the Plazza del Colloseo, with the seating area and projection room in the Via de San Gregorio.
Napoleon image copyright; Zoetrope Corporation and The Film Preserve, Ltd, with permission
Courtesy: Boston Light & Sound, Inc.
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Brian Meacham
As Managing Archivist at the Yale Film Archive, Brian oversees acquisition, inspection, cataloging, preservation, and access for the archive's film collection. Brian began work in the field at the Harvard Film Archive, worked at the Academy Film Archive, has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives since 2015, and teaches a graduate course on film archiving in the Yale Film & Media Studies program.