Giant sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' film unearthed 91 years later

Fox News/Live Science ^ | 10.17.2014 | Laura Geggel

[Jeremiah Jr]

Oy, these 10 commandments, oh well lets go to a stoning...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dware. Extras in this production actually drowned, but hey, work is work.

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OMG...A Hammond C3! That must have been fun to schlepp around!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“A Hammond C3!”

Terrible to move around, and we had dillies! But it sounded great!

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Mine was a B3...not as much wooden cabinet, the pedals were detachable, and one COULD remove the legs if one really had to! The C3 was a dilly...more suitable for permanent installation in a Church 9which is what i thought the “C” stood for! (The “B” in B3 stood for “BLUES” of course!)

Great sound, both instruments...hard to duplicate!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“C” is definitely for church, I remember carrying that monster through a swamp to play in a Chicago club! Awful!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Btw, I cut the case down after that gig!

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We could make a movie!

yeah..that’s it!

We gotta get the band back together!

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One of our regular gigs was in an old GAR Post, on the second floor, which necessitated carrying the drums, organ, and a set of VIBES up a fire escape! LOLOL!

[Brother Cracker]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“We could make a movie!”

We probably could. Famous actress Amy Madigan was Methyl Ethyl.

[Bernard Marx]

I used to live in that area. The Sphinx and movie set were discovered at least 25 years ago. — the find was covered in the media at the time. It’s taken this long to turn it into a tourist attraction.

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A number of years before the Blue Brothers movie came out, i mistakenly booked my Traditional Blues band into a hard-core Country Bar. let’s just say that the scen in “Bob’s Country Bunker” mirrored reality.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Well,,, just imagine the scene if you were a Mothers Of Invention style band! Been there!

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I loved Zappa...saw him many times in Boston, usually at a funky little night club called....

Are you ready for this/...

The TEA PARTY!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“I loved Zappa.”
We were aquiantances, Not social friends, but I knew him.

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he was an amazing musician.

[BroJoeK]

[colorado tanker]

The ‘23 version was more then-contemporary moral tale.

Most of the movie is about two brothers, one who obeys the Commandments and the other who sets out to break them all. Definitely a pre-Hayes Code kind of plot!

[al_c]