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Motion pictures -- Production and direction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Cecil B. DeMille Productions records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6254
Scope and Contents

Collection includes corporate by-laws and minute books of Cecil B. DeMille Productions. Also includes correspondence with many of DeMille's associates, appraisals, tax records, and estate records of Cecil B. DeMille and Constance A. DeMille. Collection contains materials related to the production of various DeMille films, including Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth, and The Ten Commandments (1956).

Dates: approximately 1932-1959
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille Productions records

The Crusades script

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227657092]
Identifier: MSS 5793
Scope and Contents

The Crusades, bound, annotated script, with film frames, dated 29 January 1935, in faded green binder with red felt cross and the name "Berenice" on the front cover.

Dates: 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The Crusades script

Ten Commandments costume continuity book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232550100]
Identifier: MSS 5783
Scope and Contents

Black loose-leaf binder containing 149 8x10 inch black-and-white photographs of costume sketches for The Ten Commandments (1956). The sketches were done by Arnold Friberg, Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen, and Ralph Jester. The binder was compiled by Head, who used it to check and maintain costume continuity for the production.

Dates: 1954-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ten Commandments costume continuity book

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