 In all of the films theatrical releases, Cecil B. DeMille appears in a short  prologue in which he prepares the audience for what they will see, including  the fact that the picture will concentrate heavily on the early years of  Moses before he led the Hebrews out of Egypt; he also indicates the length of  the film and the fact that it will be shown with an intermission. This  prologue has always been cut in the films network television showings.