A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000150
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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136 THE TWENTIES By 1923 Cecil B. DeMille, fed up with directing custom-made stories to fit the talents of individual stars, decided he had had enough and proceeded to produce a super-spectacle. Using his own modification of the Griffith trick of storytelling— presenting a story of ancient times to parallel one of the present —he filmed The Ten Commandments, which accomplished all that he hoped it would. Moses, shown here, was played by Theodore Boberts. ( The Commandments seem shorter, somehow, than one might think.) BELOW The Ten Commandments really deserved Holly wood's favorite adjective, colossal. The critics complained of its obvious and commonplace moralism, of its frequent vulgarity, and of its general ostentatiousness, but it certainly dragged the public to the box office. The scene of the parting of the Bed Sea was a nine days' wonder, and episodes of massproduction sin, such as this, the worship of the golden calf, thrilled the fans. DeMille had accomplished what he had set out to do: establish his name as producer of a certain type of spectacular picture. To this day, he remains one of the few directors the public at large actually knows by name.