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Black and white photograph. Copyright 1956 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. Permission granted for Newspapers and Magazine reproduction. (Made in U.S.A.) Biggest Ever…The single biggest scene in the history of motion pictures is depicted here combining the largest number of extras ever to appear on screen with the most enormous set ever constructed when Cecil B. DeMille, peer of screen spectacle, stages the Exodus sequence of his motion picture masterwork, "The Ten Commandments," story of Moses. Note camera boom in left foreground with DeMille, white shirt, in camera chair high over crowd. The set was a quarter of a mile long and 107 feet high and was erected in Egypt on the very place where major events in the life of Moses occurred. Following the Egyptian location scenes, 66 other sets—both large and small—were erected in Hollywood for the veteran producer-director's epic in "The Ten Commandments" are Charlton Heston, who portrays Moses, Anne Baxter, who plays Princess Nefertiri, Yul Brynner, who depicts the Pharaoh Ramses II and an unprecedented array of other top players.

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