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Research revealed that Noah's Ark was as large as an ordinary transatlantic liner, and the producers set about to reproduce
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And Now the Deluge !
In "Noah's Ark" the screen finds another biblical epic to film with all the resources of advanced technique and skill, and it also includes a modern sequence which is said to dovetail perfectly with the incidents from the Bible.
By A. L. Wooldridge
NEW YORK'S Broadway was immersed in rain. The city, from the Battery to the Bronx, was in the throes of one of those occasional downpours, which drive all pedestrians to shelter. Taxicabs sloshed and skidded, as their drivers struggled to get through the sea of water. Men, women, and children grouped in doorways, or roamed idly through stores, waiting for the deluge to cease. Although it was only midafternoon, electric lights were switched on in order to dispel the
In an office, high above the street, H. M. Warner, motion-picture producer, stood at his window, looking down upon the rain-drenched scene.
" 'And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights,' " he mused, recalling verses from the Bible. " 'And every living substance was destroyed.' "
He stood contemplating the picture before him. "If the residents of New York run to cover, and are annoyed by a two-hour rain,'-., he meditated, "what must have been the sensation
Noah Beery plays the ruthless Nephilim, a oagan king.
experienced by all creatures of the world when, for forty days and forty nights, 'the windows of heaven were opened,' and water descended in torrents, in cascades and cataracts, until 'every living substance was destroyed' ?
"What a picture it would make !" he pondered.
He sat down at his desk and continued his musing while the rain splashed on the pavement.
"Why not?" he philosophized. "Modern skill can reproduce Noah's Ark. Modern methods can supply and control water. Modern science can rebuild pagan temples."
The more he thought it over, the more enthusiastic he became. The idea grew. It was not impossible ; nothing is impossible in the movies.
Thus was conceived, nearly two years ago, the idea for one of the most pretentious efforts ever attempted in motion pictures. Since then, research has been made into the histories and legends of the entire world — digging, scraping, assembling ideas which might bring the proper