DeMille filmed his original Ten Commandments in the scorching Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes of Santa Barbara, California. As old film buffs know, it was a popular location to film anything that needed a desert sequence until the mid 1940s, when films began shooting on location. There are a few remnants of Gudalupe’s glory days kicking around the town, but none so weird and creepy as DeMille’s Art Deco Commandments set, which is buried somewhere under the dunes. Pieces of it have popped up from time to time and decorated the town, but the majority of it is still lying in the trench DeMille bulldozed it into.
Brosnan has been trying to find it for nearly thirty years, but has had no luck securing enough funding. He had hoped to film a documentary about DeMille’s lost city, but unable to truly dig it up, he’s decided to change the focus to that of Gudalupe’s glittery history in the hopes of helping a struggling town find its economic footing.
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