ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Abel Gance

Abel Gance was a person who lived a long time ago who made movies. He really liked telling stories with moving pictures and he was very good at it! He made many movies that people liked a lot.

Abel Gance was born in France a very long time ago (in 1889). When he was a kid, there were no movies yet! People had to make their own fun by doing things like telling stories, reading books, or playing games.

When Abel grew up, movies had just started to become popular. He loved them! Abel wanted to make movies that showed stories in new and exciting ways. He didn't just want to show people talking, he wanted to make movies that had exciting things happening all the time!

So, Abel started making movies. He made a lot of them! Some of his movies were really long and had lots of different scenes. He also made some movies that had many people working together in different locations to show the same event happening from different perspectives. This made his movies very interesting to watch.

One of Abel's most famous movies is called "Napoleon". It's a really long movie, but it tells the story of France's famous leader as a young boy all the way up to when he became emperor. This movie was really important because it was one of the first movies to be shown on a really big screen with lots of different cameras to make it look really cool.

Although Abel Gance lived a long time ago, his movies are still really famous and people still enjoy watching them today!