Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:30 p.m.p>

Chapter: Northern California

Presenter: Katherine Orrison, Independent Scholar, Hollywood Historian and Author

Location:  Room 110, Barrows Hall, U.C. Berkeley Campus

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Description: Hollywood historian Katherine Orrison, author of the book, "Written in Stone, the Making of Cecil B. DeMille's Epic, The Ten Commandments", will be covering the extensive research that went into the movie, as well as many of the intentional historical and cultural liberties that were taken due to the filmmakers' desire to give the story as wide an appeal as possible to the audiences of the day.

Numerous artifacts used in or connected with the movie THE TEN COMMANDMENTS will be on display, some belonging to our Speaker, and some belonging to local collector Mark Santa Maria. Attendees are free to photograph the props belonging to Mr. Santa Maria before and after the lecture. Please ask our Speaker for permission before photographing the items in her collection.