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The Prince of Egypt

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The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, retelling the biblical account of Moses from his upbringing in the Egyptian royal household through the Exodus of the Israelites. It was DreamWorks Animation's first traditionally animated feature and one of the first major American animated films built around a large-scale biblical narrative for a general theatrical audience rather than a specifically religious one. The Prince of Egypt is widely regarded within the animation industry as a demonstration that a traditionally animated studio feature could address serious religious and historical subject matter at a large scale.

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Release YearSourced to the subject's own account
1998 1
CountrySourced to the subject's own account
United States 1
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English 1
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Produced under the DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks SKG studio banner at its 1998 release; the cited source text uses the later DreamWorks Animation name for the same studio, which was not separately incorporated until 2004.

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  • lead paragraph
    The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and written by Philip LaZebnik.
  • The Prince of Egypt, Description, original language
    The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, retelling the biblical account of Moses from his upbringing in the Egyptian royal household through the Exodus of the Israelites.
  • Created By: DreamWorks Pictures, lead paragraph, second sentence
    It is the first traditionally animated film from DreamWorks Animation, and the first to be animated entirely in-house at DWA Glendale after Amblimation was closed in 1997.
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