Giant sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' film unearthed 91 years later

Fox News/Live Science ^ | 10.17.2014 | Laura Geggel

[dware]

Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been rediscovered and is now above ground.

The public will be able to see the sphinx on display as early as next year, once it has been reconstructed a necessity since it became weather-beaten during its stint beneath the sand, said Doug Jenzen, the executive director of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, who oversaw the recent excavation.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Oy, these 10 commandments, oh well lets go to a stoning...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dware. Extras in this production actually drowned, but hey, work is work.

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OMG...A Hammond C3! That must have been fun to schlepp around!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“A Hammond C3!”

Terrible to move around, and we had dillies! But it sounded great!

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Mine was a B3...not as much wooden cabinet, the pedals were detachable, and one COULD remove the legs if one really had to! The C3 was a dilly...more suitable for permanent installation in a Church 9which is what i thought the “C” stood for! (The “B” in B3 stood for “BLUES” of course!)

Great sound, both instruments...hard to duplicate!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“C” is definitely for church, I remember carrying that monster through a swamp to play in a Chicago club! Awful!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Btw, I cut the case down after that gig!

[left that other site]

We could make a movie!

yeah..that’s it!

We gotta get the band back together!

[left that other site]

One of our regular gigs was in an old GAR Post, on the second floor, which necessitated carrying the drums, organ, and a set of VIBES up a fire escape! LOLOL!

[Brother Cracker]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“We could make a movie!”

We probably could. Famous actress Amy Madigan was Methyl Ethyl.

[Bernard Marx]

I used to live in that area. The Sphinx and movie set were discovered at least 25 years ago. — the find was covered in the media at the time. It’s taken this long to turn it into a tourist attraction.

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A number of years before the Blue Brothers movie came out, i mistakenly booked my Traditional Blues band into a hard-core Country Bar. let’s just say that the scen in “Bob’s Country Bunker” mirrored reality.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Well,,, just imagine the scene if you were a Mothers Of Invention style band! Been there!

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I loved Zappa...saw him many times in Boston, usually at a funky little night club called....

Are you ready for this/...

The TEA PARTY!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“I loved Zappa.”
We were aquiantances, Not social friends, but I knew him.

[left that other site]

he was an amazing musician.

[BroJoeK]

[colorado tanker]

The ‘23 version was more then-contemporary moral tale.

Most of the movie is about two brothers, one who obeys the Commandments and the other who sets out to break them all. Definitely a pre-Hayes Code kind of plot!

[al_c]