Ben Hur Chariot Race Photographed By Two Cinematographers 1925 by David Lee Guss

David Lee Guss

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Ben Hur Chariot Race Photographed By Two Cinematographers 1925

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David Lee Guss

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"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American epic silent film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace. Starring Ramon Novarro as the title character, the film is the first feature-length adaptation of the novel and second overall, following the 1907 short.

Costs eventually rose to $3.9 million, making Ben-Hur the most expensive film of the silent era.

A total of 60,960 m (200,000 ft) of film was shot for the chariot race scene, which was eventually edited down to 229 m (750 ft). Film critic Kevin Brownlow has called the chariot race sequence as creative and influential a piece of cinema as the famous Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin, which introduced modern concepts of film editing and montage to cinema. This scene has been much imitated. Its opening sequence was re-created shot for shot in the (vastly overrated) 1959 remake."

(NOTE: This image was taken by either Ruth Harriet Louise, Clarence Sinclair Bull or Donald Biddle Keyes. None were credited.)

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