The Visual Effects Of Parting The Red Sea Through The Years

An interesting look into the development of visual effects over the years.

[kylemcintyre]

The first movie to really blow my mind was the Charlton Heston one. I was a kid in the 90's. We had all sorts of amazing visual effects by then, I grew up with movies like Jurassic Park, Star Wars, E.T, so on. My grandparents had this on VHS. It was in one of those brick cases with two tapes. I asked my grandmother about and she told me it was a really good movie from the 50's. When your a child, a few decades seems like centuries I remember as a kid being absolutely in awe when I saw this for the first time, wondering how they could have possibly done that in the 'Olden days'

[titan]

The most iconic version would be the 1956 The Ten Commandments remake. For me, my favorite version would be the one in The Prince of Egypt as it feels more powerful. The most unique would be the one in Exodus: Gods and Kings as the pathway between the parted waters is much wider than previous versions where they often portray it as a narrow stretch of dry path

[MirkAssassin]

Prince of Egypt is probably my favorite version in film of the Exodus story. Their parting of the Red Sea is also my favorite.

[veemon]

The 1920's one was pretty impressive all things considered...wow

[elainebmack]

I just watched the 1956 version last night. I absolutely LOVE that scene, and in my opinion, it is unmatched by any other version.

[moviemadvideo]

Ten Commandments 1956 is still the BEST!

[AlfredAmeneyro]

Really the one that most impressed me is the on the of 1956 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, they way it was shot and put together really made me OW, so impressive (quite easy to achieve, more if it's done in miniatures) and quite a realistic final product. The best one.

[TheMormonSorceress]

The Prince of Egypt's red sea parting was indeed the most beautiful. And I will not deny that The Ten Commandments was very impressive and still to this day.

[notmyrealname]

The 1923 effect was actually very clever.

[johnmudd]

Time traveller here, I can honestly say the original was the best, Moses played himself and put in a tremendous performance, deserved an Oscar,

[ultramet]

The water tank at Paramount used for the 1956 film is used as a parking lot today. It can still be filled up today if needed to film water shots.

[timsmythfilmsandanimations]

The shot at 1:35 in the video is not a double exposure, but a split screen matte. If it were a double exposure, then one of the elements would be see through.

[ducter]

Let's not forget that the 1956 Ten Commandments won an Oscar for it's FX's - and rightly deserved too!

[robelicit]

1956 "Ten Commandments" version is amazing//excellent work: Google "special effects & matte paintings..Jan Domela, Paul Lerpae, John Fulton"

[apl]

The 1956 is and will always be my favorite.

[jesusjhannick_auccatoma]

The ten commandments 1956, the best movie about Exodus

[jakegargiulo]

I love "The Prince Of Egypt" movie!

[ULTRAWIDE.]

That’s the beauty of practical effects. You’ve really got to think of how to get a shot. If done well it’ll always be remembered. When you look and hear about how the Ten Commandments one was done you think wow that’s quite impressive. Then you see the one from Exodus and you think...well not much really. You don’t really get the “money shot” in modern films anymore. One bit that absolutely wows you.

[jyt]

The 1956 in the most ever !!! 0% CGI !!! AMAZING !!

[murtazarizvi]

1956 was spectacular whereas 1999 (prince of egypt) was artistically beautiful