$1,024
A tan and red-striped cotton twill Egyptian short schenti with attached decorative pendant belt and faux leather end piece and matching headdress worn by a charioteer in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent epic film The Ten Commandments (Paramount, 1923). Unlike DeMille’s 1956 remake of his original silent film, only the first half of the 1923 version is set in Ancient Egypt, following the biblical story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt, the destruction of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, and Moses receiving the Ten Commandments. The second half of the film is a morality tale based on the Ten Commandments, set in modern times. The schenti was used by one of the Egyptian charioteers during the spectacular sequence using hundreds of extras and horses in front of a massive set of the wall of the Egyptian city, where Rameses commands his army after the Exodus. Most of the chariot crashes that occurred during the filming were real and unplanned, and these schentis can be seen quite clearly in a close shot of a chariot crash as the charioteers struggle with their horses. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and a copy of the film. Categories:
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2015-11-20
