90 years? The Ten Commandments was released in 1956.
The 1923 version.
“ The Ten Commandments was released in 1956”
He was a Producer on the 1923 version.
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Thew 1923 silent version.
DeMille made an earlier version in 1923.
WIKI—The Exodus scenes were filmed at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in northern Santa Barbara County.The film location was originally chosen because its immense sand dunes provided a superficial resemblance to the Egyptian desert.
Rumor had it that after the filming was complete, the massive sets – which included four 35-foot-tall (11 m) Pharaoh statues, 21 sphinxes, and gates reaching a height of 110 feet, which were built by a small army of 1,600 workers – were dynamited and buried in the sand.
Instead, the wind, rain and sand at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes likely collapsed and buried a large part of the set under the ever-shifting dunes.
The statues and sphinxes are in roughly the same place they were during filming. In 2012, archaeologists uncovered the head of one of the prop sphinxes; a 2014 recovery effort showed the body of that sphinx to have deteriorated significantly, but a second better-preserved sphinx was discovered and excavated.
Not the 1956 Version.
The Silent one from the 1920’s.
“90 years? The Ten Commandments was released in 1956.”
The original debut was in 1446 B.C.... with a cast of thousands, and very realistic special effects...
The slient version actually managed to kill some extras when the water was released, if memory serves. Those were the good old days. :^) A requirement of the land management (federal or state, I duuno) of the time was that the sets be build below grade, and buired after completion of the picture.