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Giant sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' film unearthed 91 years later
Fox News/Live Science ^
| 10.17.2014
| Laura Geggel
Posted on 10/17/2014 3:21:54 PM PDT by dware
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To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:00:17 PM PDT
by
UpInArms
(without failure there's no success only slavery)
To: jjotto
Yes, I seem to recall the 1923 version jumping back and forth between Biblical times and modern-day. I think the 1929 “Noah’s Ark” also had a contempory element as well. But it’s been decades since I last viewed either. The films were probably still being influenced by the era-jumping pattern from “Intolerance.”
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:05:31 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: TigersEye
“well played, doctor.”
It was an interesting band! Soul Review. Wilson, Sam and Dave, etc.. But it was 50 years ago, and I was playing Robert Randolf style bluesy pedal steel in that band. Man! That band was as much fun as our regular band Methyl Ethyl and The Ketones!
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:07:07 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: dware
I saw The Ten Commandments at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles about 30 years ago. An organist, playing a big theater organ, provided the music. It is one of my favorite films of all time.
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
You're not kidding about those band names are you?
Sounds like a lot of fun!
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:11:45 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: dware
Here is a link for the actor who played Moses in the 1923 film
Theodore Roberts They also have a picture of him as Moses.
To: TigersEye
Nope! No kidding. Actress Amy Madigan was Methyl Ethyl. I got the band name from a solvent can at work! The full name of the R&B band was Hot Potato and The Abdomen. Mark (Hot Potato); “Hey! Wanna hear some Sam and Dave?”
Crowd; “Abdo-lutely!”
We even had a Go-Go dancer! Big Soul band!
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:17:57 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: dware
Some of the scenes from The Ten Commandments were shot at the Saints Peter and Paul Church, a large Catholic church in San Francisco's North Beach district, while it was under construction.
To: dware
There also was a 1925 Ben Hur silent, starring Francis X Bushman.
Not directed by deMille, however.
To: dware
there was or is in the California desert a full-scale reproduction in bamboo or wood, I believe, of a Japanese navy FLEET which was used in aircraft attack practice during world war 2.
Somewhere around Palmdale or Scotty’s castle.
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:23:26 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:25:19 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Fiji Hill
It’s a unique and enjoyable experience, viewing silent films with live music in a theater setting. I saw several programs at the old Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood, including a batch of silent Laurel and Hardy shorts. They weren’t even the duo’s best efforts; some of their lesser films, actually. Yet, with a live audience laughing, live music, and the vintage theater setting, it turned the experience into a bright, shared social event that just popped with entertainment and enthusiasm.
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:28:39 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: PAR35
Bwaaaa! That’s me playing the Gibson Flying V. I was a 1958, #28 made. Stolen. I coulda bought a condo in Florida with it now! Great band. Mothers of Invention style. I used to get Amy to wear her Catholic girl’s school uniform. Cracked me up, as we were so offensive to everyone and everything! We were Devo, way before Devo!
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:34:24 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
That band was as much fun as our regular
band Methyl Ethyl and The Ketones!fun with Organic Chemistry/Chemical Engineering!...http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dti_E2ZKZpC4
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:39:40 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Liberalism to Fabianism to Socialism to Marxism to Totalitarianism.. "the inertia of stupidity" d8-)
To: Palio di Siena
The 1925 Ben Hur is amazing. Filmed in Italy with literally a cast of thousands. Mussolini allowed his army to be extras in it. It actually holds up quite well to the Heston version.
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:51:25 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
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posted on
10/17/2014 4:58:01 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Liberalism to Fabianism to Socialism to Marxism to Totalitarianism.. "the inertia of stupidity" d8-)
To: skinkinthegrass
“glue?”
Nah! I was a dope-smokin’ hippie then, But I was an odd fish, as I have always been a Conservative. Even then, although it may not look like it! A Conservative hippie!
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posted on
10/17/2014 5:02:27 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Fresh Wind
Hey, I like that. In Eqypt if the statue has a beard it means he’s dead.
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posted on
10/17/2014 5:06:20 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Thanks. Had never seen that version, before.
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posted on
10/17/2014 5:12:47 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Texas Yellow Rose
Heh. I was going to comment that I finally watched the Charlton Heston version just a few years ago ( alone in a motel room, ) and it seemed to me to be designed to resemble Bible illustrations of that era, especially in the color scheme. Well, look at this:
I suppose this visual conception goes way back.
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posted on
10/17/2014 5:49:22 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
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