The Bible in film in Genesis was the 1904 French film "Joseph Vendu Par Ses Frères" ("Joseph Sold by his Brothers"). Enrico Guazzoni's 1913 Italian epic "Quo Vadis?" is often considered the first successful feature-length motion picture and one of the first films with over two hours running time. Cecil B. DeMille specialized in extravagant epics throughout a career that spanned both the silent and sound eras. His 1923 silent version of "The Ten Commandments" (1923) included spectacular special effects for the parting of the Red Sea. De Mille followed "The Ten Commandments" in 1927 with "King of Kings", a lavish, reverential life of
Cecil B. DeMille refers to himself in one instance as "Cecil B. DeAldrin", as a humorous nod to DeMille. DeMille made seventy features. In spite of careful storage in his film vaults, seven films—the early silents: "The Arab", "The Wild Goose Chase", "Chimmie Fadden", "The Dream Girl", "We Can't Have Everything", "The Devil Stone", and the 1918 remake "The Squaw Man"—were lost to nitrate decomposition. Roughly twenty of his silent features are available in commercial DVD format. The sound films are in three groups: 1. The three films DeMille produced at M-G-M are now owned by Warner Bros. (through Turner Entertainment). 2. The