Noahs Ark(Warner Bros.) (1928)

DOLORES COSTELLO in “NOAH’S ARK” with GEORGE O’BRIEN—The Spectacle of the Ages 3 Noah’s Ark Sets Cover Lee fe More Than Square Mile, ~ | Téa Thousand in Cast sve““Noah’s Ark’ Building pon ae Less Difficult Than Task of senate Maha Transferring Biblical Deluge to Screen @ man, horse, hydraulic and! once, begun, had to ogre ne ata ewes S ae of oe _{merry clip, without distractions. artisans worke in three eight-hour eee suvelved in 2 super Fi ‘shifts preparing the vast temple courtyards for the most elaborate scene of the picture. Sewing machines hummed the livelong day on costumes, of the _ pre-deluge period. Eighteen thousand yards, or more than half a million inches, of silk braid were utilized for cos @ motion picture is admirTwo years were spent in research Sustrated in Warner Bros.’, before Jack L. Warner, vice-presiletad age of , dent in charge of production, gave gcompieted production ©! | the word to start. These years Ark.” The sheer me-|were consumed in advance biblio Meee organizing a vast army | graphical, architectural and sar000 extras, controlling a torial research on diluvian and tumes alone. There was _ requisi The ac animals, and charting antediluvian civilization. I : : mulated data at hand, Director 1 , photographers, — elec| Michael Curtizunaeael ‘Swittly; anal ones Dea wigs and oo beam @@figeand 1,100 workmen on aj almost overnight a miniature ci! pagan elitd Meeezht-acre auxiliary studio, | had sprung up, with every basiv| oold and coffee making of a two-million-| mdustry represented in the movi?) the hoi polloims ay | Lot, anvils clanging, flywheels hums) }, -a pica lta “Gesereen epic—all this tran-| | ming, forests of wood mounting, the-nawr nag Bethe organization rec iste = ae, Biccidal vias Chee a Se nerastant trate cont a ae Industrial: plant where a ing and assistant dir Y| deleverad -omacthes (recial detracts 4s fit into a pattern and !"8. while the aitwcrit heathen Temple Samnerertiiere is plenty of time. With two million dollars thrown of dissolute and gr Ry !into the making of “Noah’s Ark, feared. Casting @iaewas an element of impor,drama of the first order was exarmy of nondemf “screening “Noah’s Ark,” pected, drama that would justify imposing re-the,production cost per hour, both aesthetically and economically d 128 side WAS = $19, 0Q0, and where the picture, | the colossal expenditure. esiles a miseeliany of lesser The whipping into shape of a super-cinematic opus | ted for the™ai more than anything else Then the Wig i. °. resembles the marshalling | Jack L. Warner ordered sm shoo |: | Scene From'Noahks Ark” starring Dolores Costello ith Geordé O'Bri @ Warner Bros. Production “ge Ait by war lords of their| ing to begin. : forces. Both the general| The smoothness aaa and the producer utilize| that followed was THe vast numbers, have arbi-| painstaking precision OR™® trary power, and move} Each groove of the dovetaiiga) over an immense terrain| fitted perfecly. The unwiel vt for their ultimate pur-|of 10,000 extras moved as poses. fectly as one unit. They en @red It is interesting to study| @ long room, were sprayed by 80 the statistical figures on|SPray machines on arms, chest, this production. Fifty | legs and head with a special bronze technical experts were|Tainproof toning that instantly engaged to work onj gave them the coppery complexion (Continued on Page 24) ia Production No. 2—Cut or Mat THE CAST —— Modern Biblical MARY (MIRIAM )...DOLORES COSTELLO TRAVIS (JAPHETH)...GEORGE O’BRIEN Nickoloff (King Nephilim).........Noah Beery Waiida 6 el a ee ee Al (Ham)................... Guinn Williams Minister (Noah)............. Paul McAllister Tae Soldier (High Priest). . _. Nigel de Brulier German (Leader of Soldiers yr: _Anders Randolf Frenchman (Leader of King’s Gund ) Armand Kaliz Dancer (Slave Girl)...............Myrna Loy Innkeeper (Guard) ....... William V. Mong Balkan (Shem, Noah’s Son). ... Malcolm Waite In Stock Exchange Sequence—Broker Noble Johnson In Stock Exchange Séquence—Trader Otto Hoffman Aid to Leader of Soldiers... _. . Joe Bonomo Ten Thousand Extra Characters