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Author Topic: "The Ten Commandments" Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-20-2001 12:01 PM                        Anybody know if there are any good prints of "The Ten Commandments" out there anywhere? ('56 version)  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-20-2001 02:51 PM                     Actually there's a lovely IB in my basement...complete with CB's intro. Sadly, it's only half as wide as what you're looking for. Sorry, I know that's not what you wanted to hear.  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 12-20-2001 03:18 PM                     There was a 70mm copy held in London a few years ago. It may well be held by the BFI or at Bradford  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-20-2001 10:36 PM                     I would not mind coming up with a 35mm print of that one. It was one of my favorites. I know what I would do with it if I had it. It was a great movie.  |  IP: Logged Patrick J. McCart Film Handler Posts: 24 From: Blue Ridge, GA, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 12-20-2001 10:41 PM                        Wasn't this movie restored a few years back? I have seen a remastered version (only on TV, though) that has great color and is miles ahead of the older TV transfer. I'd love to see a VistaVision print of it, of course.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-21-2001 01:51 AM                     I saw a stunning mint print of it at a Heston film festival here in AZ in 1998 (which he attended too). Where the print is now or what conditon its in, I dont know. In comparison, they also ran Planet of Apes (as well as all his other big films) which was in horrid shape. Faded, splicy as heck, scratchy, etc.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-21-2001 03:27 AM                     I ran a very nice 35mm I.B. Tech print about 15 years ago that came from Films Inc. It also had a Perspecta soundtrack. I doubt if this print survives today, but the long trailers with C.B. narrating are almnost as good. If you can get one and run it 6 times it would fill the same time slot.......... Those of you that have kept your older Dolby processors can make use of the Perspecta Track by purchasing a card from England that will go into a standard Cat 150 slot and decode the Perspecta info just like the old Fairchild processors did. The cost of the card is about U.S. $500.00 Mark @ GTS  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-21-2001 04:16 AM                        Sadly not here in Bradford. i will try and look up where our print came from.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-21-2001 12:58 PM                        Thanks for the replies. We did run the film in '90 as part of a 60th anniversary celebration for the theater (the print we had then was in fantastic shape), and we're planning a remodel this year so I'm looking to run it again as a grand opening thing. (Still kicking ideas around).  |  IP: Logged

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