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In Reply to: "The Ten Commandments" posted by rico on January 20, 2005 at 01:44:51:
of course there were no computer/digital effects. When the faithful were led out of Egypt, DeMille had thousands upon thousands of extras. The story has variants, but the most common one was that he had several camara positions.DeMille called "action",
Shortly into the take radioed the first camera position
"Too much dust,CB. I can't see a thing!", quoth he.
He then radioed the second position,
"Too much heat,CB. The camera failed"
Becoming slightly desperate (and wroth) he radioed a third position
"Too far away, CB. Not a good take"
In desperation (the story goes) he radioed his safety "bail out" position.
"Ready when you are,CB".Those who clain the story is true, and there are many, say that DeMille decided at the last minute not to do a run through to save time and cost but that the last camara position was never notified.
Whatever the truth is, the final version of the Exodus was DeMille at his most spectacular. No one could afford the extras required today.And I agree about the LD transfer. Quite good.
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- A story about the filming (perhaps apocryphal) - Auricle 08:05:27 01/20/05 (0)
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