Finding Aid for the Paramount Pictures Corporation Motion Picture Stills for The Ten Commandments PASC.0189
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Title: Paramount Pictures Corporation motion picture stills for
The Ten Commandments
Creator:
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0189
Physical Description:
1.7 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date: 1956
Abstract: The motion picture Ten Commandments (1956) was a Paramount Pictures Corporation, Cecil B.DeMille production. The collection
consists of black and white stills and a typescript revised script dated 6 July 1956.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Paramount Pictures Corporation motion picture stills for The Ten commandments (Collection 189).
UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography/History
The 1956 Paramount production of The Ten commandments was Cecil B. De Mille's last film and is best known for its Academy
Award winning special effects. The film was based on the books Based on the books Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
(Philadelphia, 1949), The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by Rev. Joseph Holt Ingraham (New York, 1859) and On Eagle's
Wings by Rev. Arthur E. Southon (London, 1937) and tells the story of Moses and the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. The cast featured
among others, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, and Yvonne De Carlo. Screenplay credits include
Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, and Fredric M. Frank. Art directors were Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, and
Albert Nozaki and cinematographer Loyal Griggs with additional photography by J. Peverell Marley, John Warren, and Wallace
Kelley. The editor was Anne Bauchens. The working title of the film was Prince of Egypt. The Ten Commandments was previously
filmed in 1923 and directed DeMille.
Scope and Content
The collections consists of 800-plus black and white motion pictures stills for the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments.
Additionally included is typescript, revised as filmed The Ten Commandments script, dated July 6, 1956.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ten commandments (Motion picture : 1956)
box 1
The Ten Commandments revised as filmed script
1956 July 6
box 1
The Ten Commandments motion picture stills (black and white, 184 items)
box 2
The Ten Commandments motion picture stills (black and white, 250 items)
box 3
The Ten Commandments motion picture stills (black and white, 250 items)
box 4
The Ten Commandments motion picture stills (black and white, 250 items)
