Noahs Ark(Warner Bros.) (1928)

DOLORES COSTELLO in “NOAH’S ARK” with GEORGE O'BRIEN—The Spectacle of the Ages HILDA, THE TAVERN MAID, PLANS ESCAPE OF MARY, TRAVIS AND AL STORIES DURING THE RUN t* starring Dolores Costello with George O Brien @ Warner Bros. Production DOLORES COSTELLO AND NOAH BEERY Production No. 6—Cut or Mat LOUD SPEAKER OVERRIDES DIN IN FILMING “NOAH’S ARK,” THE SPECTACLE OF THE AGES The loud speaker has dnd a} Hence, in filming “Noah’s Ark,” new use on the motion picture lot. Director Michael Curtiz used it not only to direct scenes in “Noah’s Ark,” the Warner Bros. Vitaphone super-special, but also utilized it to broadcast music for the marching thousands, participating in the festival procession. Even a brass band would not suffice to drown out unrelated sounds when the great pageant wended its way majestically through the fore-court of the Biblical temple of the production. Clashing cymbals of the dancing girls, the beat of huge drums mounted on the backs of camels and elephants, the blare of trumpets and other sounds defied dominance by any conveyor of sound otier than the loud speaker. a buzzer system to musicians in an adjoining stage, signaled when to strike up, and cease the martial music. Dolores Costello is starring in “Noah’s Ark,” with George O’Brien in the leading male role. An allstar cast and 10,000 extra characters assist. Darryl Francis Zanuck is the author of the tremendous story which pictures modern and Biblical scenes in the tempestuous lives of two lovers, who are wafted from the present to the past, and back to the modern world at the delirious moment when news has come to American soldiers overseas that the Armistice has been signed. ‘“Noah’s Ark” comes to the.... Theatre.... the making of Warner Bros.’ Muction of “Noah’s | are curious as INTEREST IN “NOAH’S ARK” GROWS AS OPENING NEARS Dolores Costello in ‘‘Noah’s Ark,” Warner Bros. Vita phone Super Special, with George O’Brien—Comes to the ... . Students of the Bi, impressed| It is known that the interior of |: . by the amount and thoroughness : f research work that went into proArk,” the most lossal of the season’s productions, how certain ases of hisare treated e picture. ; esult has 4 Stock S-183 Cut or Mat Order Separately lhatever the Warners Atter would undoubt Once only did ye arise among the hundreds of wild animals used by Warner Bros. in the filming of “Noah’s Ark.” During that time that portion of the studio was in an uproar and several casualties among the denizens of the wilds resulted. A brace of crocodiles appeared to be instigators of the near-riot. Breaking loose, they mixed in the middle of a scene being filmed in the interior of the Ark, with Dolores Costello, George O’Brien and Paul McAllister as principals. Baring fang and talon, bellowing, screeching, and roaring, elephants, lions, tigers and scores of smaller members of the animal cast joined the fray. When the crocodiles were finally pried apart by a dozen assistant directors, prop men, and animal trainers, the combatants were found to have damaged each other considerably. A half hour was consumed in corralling a miscellany | of monkeys, wild fowl, and domestic animals from their hastily acquired ports of safety. A huge python twined about a rude ladder was the only member of the assemblage to maintain calm. He hung’, unconcerned, apparently disdaining to add his eighteen feet of sinuous body to the melee. This huge collection was assembled by Warners in depicting for the screen the Biblical version of the launching of the Ark as a part of their modern-Biblical story, “Noah’s Ark,” which stars Dolores Costello, with George O’Brien in the leading male role. “Noah’s Ark,” Warner Bros. Vitaphone super-speeial, comes to the.... Theatre.... . Theatre .... Next the Ark furnishes one of the big spectacles in the picture and it has puzzled many students as to how|® the dimensions of the huge floating mass, for it had to be huge to hold all that it contained, were arrived at as well as on what was based the structural appearance of the Ark’s interior. One writer said that while he had searched, he had never been able to find a picture purporting to show the interior of the Ark. eS Of course, Vitaphone entered largely into several of the scenes in “Noah’s Ark.” This was announced early in the production activities and it was also told that the Tower of Babel would be shown exactly as it was originally constructed. One of the queries sent by a minister in Kansas was about this same Tower. “What part would Vitaphone have in the scene showing the Tower?” was one of the questions, and another was: “How was it arranged to make clear the babel of voices which issued from the Tower?” If the number of questions regarding the picture mean anything it is that it is being awaited with a good deal of pleasant anticipation. As is known, Dolores Costello and George O’Brien have the chief roles in “Noah’s Ark,” and the action sways from the present times to those of the Flood. Miss Costello is said to have a wonderfully fine role in the picture and one in which she is expected to show the best work of her brilliant career on the screen. Gm . “Noah’s Ark” comeg $6 the Jim. . Theatre .... next. fo eee DOLORES COSTEELO ~ IN “NOAH'S' ARK? | Dolores Costello has never Dee so appealingly lovely as in her dual starring role in ‘“Noah’s Ark,” Warner Bros. Vitaphone _ superspecial, which comes to the . Theatre .... next for a run of . . Miss Costello plays the part of a dancing girl who finds herself in the midst of the World War, bereft of her American lover. Sentenced to be shot as a spy by the machinations of a man she has repulsed—she is saved by a bursting shell which hurls her and the lover, who has tried to save her, into the cellar of a ruined French chateau—where, as the chaplain compares the modern flood of blood with the ancient Flood—all are wafted back fifty centuries and she plays the part of a _ persecuted maiden in the days of Noah. Ten thousand in the cast—stupendous scenes—hundreds of animals — Vitaphone __ glorifying voices — sounds and symphonic accompaniment, makes “Noah’s Ark” supreme. for Scene fram oaks Ark” startin Dolores Costello with George Oorien Q Warner ros.Preduction Production No. 7—Cut or Mat BEAUTY OF SETS IN “NOAH’S ARK” The fact that Dolores Costello is the star of “Noah’s Ark” assures seeing and hearing one of the most beautiful stars the screen has yet revealed when the colossal picture is presented at the .... Theatre. The story of ‘“Noah’s Ark” begins in modern days, in a railway coach speeding toward Paris. There is all the clamor and fuss which European trains are famous. Then comes a view of Paris just when war is declared. Later the characters are trans ported to the days of Noah. In picturing the Wneient times, both primitive beauty in. natural surroundings, and ornateness in structure is shown. It is Known, of course, that Ninevah and BabyJim, cities of glory, rendwned in ‘ig’ land story, were antedated by ~ cities ast Noah’s times. * a, aro e these sets is the shut» in which the eine’ theld — beforé Saciiehan —araiomaipscends. This Temple isa se=.. = and aréhit it is display the largest ae ( feet. Then there seo ahue feet high and weighing™f® These, with the pillars of if height, the massive walls— swept away before themigh' " power of the flood. Theres is 2p this magnificent tragedy As noted, Dolores Costello is the star of “Noah’s Ark,” with George O’Brien and a cast including Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Paul McAllister, Guinn Williams, Nigel de Brulier, Anders Randolf, Armand Kaliz, Myrna Loy, William V. Mong and Malcolm Waite. At times more than ten thousand people were engaged in making the picture. Never before has Vitaphone been so thoroughly vindicated as in “Noah’s Ark.” strange, wild, terrible as in. ]