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The Ten Commandments
(1923)
on

2006 Paramount Home Video edition

The Ten Commandments (1923), black & white, 136 minutes, not rated, with The Ten Commandments (1956), color, 220 minutes, MPAA Rated G.

Paramount Home Video, 04122,
UPC 0-97360-41224-6, ISBN 1-4157-1863-6.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, French language subtitles, 15 chapter stops, cardboard boxset with plastic disc trays, $24.99.
DVD release date: 21 March 2006.
Country of origin: USA

Mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print, this full-frame presentation includes the Gaylord Carter pipe-organ music score that accompanied Paramount’s 1990s VHS home video edition. The presentation is entirely in black & white, with the original Technicolor footage having survived in higher quality in black & white prints (which were shot concurrently to the color footage). The exodus sequence is slightly jerky, which may be bothersome to some viewers.

The disc includes film commentary by Katherine Orrison, and color footage of the exodus-Red Sea sequence (a combination of Technicolor, hand-tinted color and color-toning that is misidentified as all hand-tinted color).

We are happy to have this DVD edition release, with its Carter music score, to replace our worn VHS home video copy and recommend it highly.

 
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a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
Other silent era Cecil B. DeMille films available on DVD home video:
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Carmen (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Don’t Change Your Husband (1919)
The Godless Girl (1928)
The Golden Chance (1916)
Joan the Woman (1917)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Little American (1917)
Male and Female (1919)
Manslaughter (1922)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Road to Yesterday (1926)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Virginian (1914)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Other silent era religious films available on DVD home video:
Ben-Hur (1925)
Christus (1915)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
Joan the Woman (1915)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1905)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
 
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