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Black and white photograph. Copyright MCMLXXXII United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved. This material has been manufactured under a license with the proprietor of the copyright. United Artists Corporation. Permission granted for reproduction in newspapers and periodicals only. Reproduction, distribution or any other use in any manner including, but not limited to, publication in books, retrospectives, biographies or in connection with the sale or advertising of posters or any other product or service permitted only with express written consent of United Artists Corporation.

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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.

Black and white photograph. Cecil B. DeMille's production "The Ten Commandments" In Vistavision, Motion Picture High-Fidelity, Technicolor, A Paramount Picture. "Property of National Screen Service Corp. Licensed for display only in connection with the exhibition of this picture at your theatre. Must be returned immediately thereafter. Copyright 1956 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. Permission granted for Newspaper and Magazine reproduction when credit given to Paramount Pictures corporation. (Made in U.S.A.) 56/392