The 10 Commandments📽️Making Miracles

The Ten Commandments

Making Miracles

The Making of the Movie (1956)

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Directed and produced by celebrated filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau, this feature-length documentary on the making of Cecil B. DeMille's biblical epic The Ten Commandments is an engaging blend of film footage and interviews with DeMille and Charlton Heston family members plus film historians such as Katherine Orrison and Scott Eyman as well as providing an examination of the efforts involved in the film's restoration.

This documentary has been licensed by Paramount Pictures Corporation.

The Ten Commandments

(1956) - Trailer

This is an all time classic from the golden age of Hollywood

I have seen this movie at least once a year since childhood and it never gets old.

 

Bithiah finds Moses
The Ten Commandments

Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, finds Moses in a basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew. Bithiah names the baby Moses.

 

Moses Meets His Real Mother

(1956) HD

Lem-1 with an E:  Anyone else notice that Moses walks in holding gloves? Egyptians used them for handling the reins in chariotry. They found several pairs in King Tut's tomb, and the artifacts therein were used extensively to model the props in this movie.

Moses conquers Ethiopia
The Ten Commandments 1956

Comments

1. curtisharrell:  The old-timey color technology is actually gorgeous.
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   GoldenState:  Beautiful color and definition. Makes 4K look low def.

Parting The Red Sea
The Ten Commandments (1956)

Visual Effects
Parting The Red Sea
Through The Years
An interesting look into the development of visual effects over the years.

Parting of The Red Sea 
The Ten Commandments 1956

Comments

Beautiful color and definition. Makes 4K look low def.
The old-timey color technology is actually gorgeous.
Compare with colors of movies these days (either sepia, bluish, grayish or greenish hues - see Exodus Colors below... 

Exodus:
Gods and Kings (2014)

Red Sea Scene

Neolwen:  I like how the waves were polite enough to slow down in time to let Ramses and Moses have a conversation

 Exodus: Gods and Kings
Official Trailer [HD]

Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.

From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Prometheus) comes the epic adventure "Exodus: Gods and Kings," the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton), setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

The film's writing credits are: Written by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage and Jeffrey Caine and Steven Zaillian

The Ten Commandments

Trailer 1956 (1080p)

Sphinx from Epic Movie Set

Unearthed in California

CBS This Morning  Published on Dec 2, 2017

Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 silent film, "The Ten Commandments," required thousands of actors, crew, and animals along with an immense set that was too expensive to move. DeMille ordered it to be buried so that rival filmmakers couldn't use it. Now, archaeologists have unearthed part of one of the 21 sphinxes he left behind. Alex Wagner reports.