Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
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Incidents depicted in the life of Joseph of Canaan include: the conspiracy of his brothers to sell him into slavery and strip him of the coat of many colors given to him by his father Jacob; Jacob's grief upon seeing the torn coat and hearing from the brothers that Joseph died under a lion's claw; Joseph's hardships as a slave; his arrival in Egypt; his life as a slave in the house of Potiphar, an Egyptian official, whose wife Zelikah tries to seduce Joseph; his imprisonment; his prophecy, which comes true, telling of life for one fellow prisoner and death for another; his interpretation for the Pharoah of the dream of the seven lean and seven fat kine; the seven years of famine in Egypt; and the reconciliation with his father, brothers, their wives and children in Egypt.
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This film was copyrighted under the title Joseph and His Brethren and re-released under that title to the state rights market by Dormet Film Co. in December 1915. The film was originally released under the title Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors by Sawyer, Inc. in July 1914.
