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

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…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Drama, Religion, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/xd-39164-10-commandments-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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