“THE TEN COMMANDMENTS” 1956 FEATURETTE / PREVIEW HOSTED BY DIRECTOR CECIL B. DEMILLE XD39164

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This ten minute featurette from 1956 serves as an extended preview of Cecil B. DeMille’s forthcoming epic drama “The Ten Commandments,” narrated by DeMille himself. The director takes us on a tour of the life of Moses, illustrated with clips of the film and works of classical art.

Cecil Blount DeMille (1881 – 1959) was an American film director and producer. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.

“The Ten Commandments” is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by DeMille. The film dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. Filmed on location in Egypt, Mount Sinai, and the Sinai Peninsula, the film was DeMille's last and most successful work. It is a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of the same title, and features one of the largest sets ever created for a film. The film was released to cinemas in the United States on November 8, 1956, and, at the time of its release, was the most expensive film ever made.

00:06 TITLE CARDS 00:26 In a wood paneled study, Cecil B. DeMille begins to tell the story of Moses, reading from an enormous bible with a small facsimile of Michelangelo’s “Moses” on his desk 01:15 “Moses Showing the Ten Commandments” by Gustave Doré 01:19 Photograph of Charlton Heston with Michelangelo’s “Moses” in Rome 01:38 “The Finding of Moses“ by Anthony Van Dyke 01:56 Recreation of Moses’s basket, ten commandments tablets 02:52 “The Works of Josephus” book 03:08 Map of the Sinai Peninsula 03:23 Painting of sun above Mount Sinai 03:40 DeMille begins to read from Exodus 03:53 Yochabel (Martha Scott) sending Moses in basket down the Nile River; Bithiah (Nina Foch) finds the basket 04:32 Moses (Charlton Heston), Sethi (Cedric Hardwicke) 05:03 Rameses (Yul Brynner), Nefretiri (Ann Baxter), Memnet (Judith Anderson), Baka (Vincent Price) 05:42 Rameses threatens Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) 06:09 Moses working as a slave 06:33 Women dance 06:50 Sephora (Yvonne De Carlo) 07:16 Moses threatens Rameses 07:42 Nefretiri carries dead child 07:47 Rameses sets the Hebrews free 07:57 The Exodus begins 08:03 Joshua (John Derek), Lilia (Debra Paget) 08:30 Chariots race across desert to stop the Exodus 08:33 Moses parts the Red Sea 08:51 DeMille summarizes story 10:03 END

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