Silent Discoveries - DVD

After Six Days Touted at the time as a $3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions, this Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised - from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea. The advertising claimed it was filmed over a period of five years at the Exact Locations of Biblical History. Little is known about the actual production which has puzzled film scholars given it's international box-office success. This edition was made from the only complete copy known to exist, a mint 16mm print of the 1929 7-reel sound reissue. Yesterday And Today Veteran funnyman George Jessel is our host and narrator for this light-hearted look-back at the early and often humorously primitive days of motion pictures circa pre-1910. The majority of film sequences benefit from not having much exposure, if any, since their original , and most are featured in longer excerpts unlike the usual compilations of this type. Among other errors, practically every film was misidentified! Those, and other errors, are corrected on a supplemental commentary track produced and narrated by film historian Richard M. Roberts.