Noah's Ark | Full 1928 Feature Film | Warner Classics

[@sharonpolikoff7282]

Thanks for bringing this classic film to a new generation of viewers. People should appreciate all the talent and ingenuity that once created special effects without any CGI.

[@Giovanni_Dortona]

No offense but people died in that flood scene

[@MiiGameplaysHD]

I wish I could appreciate it but 3 people died on set

[@Giovanni_Dortona]

@@MiiGameplaysHD I feel very similar. I really wanted to say I loved the movie. But. Poor actors

[@twoshoedtommy8054]

Oh yeaaaah! This is that movie where the extras in the flood scene weren't ever told about the water, right? Three people ended up drowning and one lost a limb. The director Curtiz even dismissed concerns from the cinematographer saying "..they'll just have to take their chances."

[@JudgeCrater22]

Are you sure of that? What I read is that there were non-stop ambulances at the studio to pick up extras with broken bones at the "Noah's Ark" inclined set after the extras were hit with flood waters from 5,000 gallon water dump tanks. Director Michael Curtiz put the stunt people on the side of the set that did not get flooded. For realism, seeing real panic on people's faces, guys who were not stunt players. Star Dolores Costello, in an interview in the "Hollywood" Thames TV series, said it was "blood, blood, everywhere." Costello wound up with pneumonia from the drenching she got. Director of photography Hal Mohr refused to film the flood scene so Warner Bros. fired him, not calling him back again until they needed an ace DP for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1936. I read that one extra may have died in this scene, but Hollywood studios controlled the newspapers and the police, so silence was golden.

[@Naminski1a]

@@JudgeCrater22 Darryl F. Zanuck went on to the production chief for 20th Century-Fox.

[@JudgeCrater22]

@@Naminski1a Right. Zanuck started 20th Century film company in 1933 after leaving Warner Bros. over a salary dispute. Jack Warner had cut the salaries of all non-contract studio employees by up to 50% while top studio executives continued to earn salaries of a $100,000 a year or more (giant money in the Depression year of 1932). So Zanuck quit over the salary cuts to studio craft people mostly 5 years away of getting union contracts with guaranteed salaries. When Fox Films went on the rocks thanks to the Depression and studio chief William Fox's strange behavior, Zanuck managed to get backing to merge his small movie studio with major studio Fox. For most of the next 35 years, Zanuck ran 20th Century Fox, later along with his son Richard Zanuck starting in the late 1960s.

[@Naminski1a]

@@JudgeCrater22 By the way, my favorite Warner Bros. movies are Dodge City (1939), City for Conquest (1940), Deception (1946), City Heat (1984), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) and The Flash (2023) and my favorite 20th Century-Fox movies are Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

[@cojaysea]

That’s true according to Delores Costello in Kevin Bronlows silent film series Hollywood the pioneers .

[@Cladius76]

The Production quality of this movie minimum 50 years ahead of his own time..Absolutely amazing..Costumes, locations, Miniatures, Matte Paintings, Special and Optic Effects, Set Designs, Lightings Actings Cast Cinematography everything solid even todays standards..Absolutely amazing!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Naminski1a]

Thanks, Warner Bros. for uploading this full-length silent movie.

[@robertd.carver6240]

Fascinating relic of the silent era. Great plot and characters.

[@santinamarie4699]

I love silent films, this movie stands out it is unbelievable I'm just amazed at every frame

[@rjmcallister1888]

Much as Cecil B DeMille had done in his 1923 "The Ten Commandments", Curtiz (and writer Darryl F Zanuck, later head of Twentieth Century-Fox) weaves a contemporary story into the Biblical tale. The full Vitaphone soundtrack is a bonus. Like many films of that brief era, the hybrid films disappeared, along with their silent cousins, not long after. Warners hired some of the best special effects men of their time to pull this one off. Dolores Costello (later Barrymore) was something to see. Great to see this preserved for future audiences.

[@carmenfoote7999]

An epic movie on the scale of Cecil B. DeMille. From the days of Noah to the world at war, this movie with all its fantastic scenes, special effects and cinematic excellent, would have surpassed any movie that comes out today in sheer grandeur. Thanks for the posting. Joe S

[@Giovanni_Dortona]

@@carmenfoote7999 That flood scene that was realistic looking. 600,000 gallons of water. 3 dead, one with a leg amputated, and more injured. I loved the way the movie was. But this movie is also LITERALLY the reason why movie sets have safety regulations (but I do agree with your comment)

[@InternetDarkLord]

34:00 The way this movies mashes silent and sound is amazing. This scene has a soundtrack and silent cards.

[@snarflatful]

Approximately 7,500 extras worked on the film. During the filming of the climactic flood scene, the 600,000 US gallons (2,300,000 L; 500,000 imp gal) of water used was so overwhelming that three extras drowned, one was so badly injured that his leg needed to be amputated, and a number suffered broken limbs and other serious injuries, which led to implementation of stunt safety regulations the following year. Dolores Costello caught a severe case of pneumonia. Thirty-five ambulances attended the wounded.

[@lesweizman388]

it's amazing how little they thought about safety at this time

[@Giovanni_Dortona]

@@snarflatful Thirty Five? Esh

[@saturn722]

Early in the movie around the 3:45 mark we witness stocks collapsing with everyone around a ticker tape machine, then in the “pit” where buying and selling is going crazy. This film was released on Nov. 1, 1928 exactly 1 year before the American market crashed, causing America’s Great Depression! Prophetic movie??

[@pdworld3421]

nothing like the story of NOah's Ark.

[@TheVid54]

Complete with overture. Heart O' Mine. Good grief - what a flood of emotion and sword'n'sandal flourishes. Spectacular silliness of the most dangerous kind, since the rumor is that there were actual drownings during the deluge.

[@gmanley1]

I didn't know this was in the public domain this year.

[@christopherTYJ]

Dolores Costello was the grandma of Drew Barrymore.

[@Dabhach1]

According to the story -- which may or may not be true -- none of the people in the flood scene were stunt people. They were all just day-labouring extras with no special training. When Curtiz unleased the flood, he gave them no warning and a massive number of them were injured, some quite severely. He wanted to get "authentic" emotion on film. He succeeded.

[@lesweizman388]

is true....extras actually died in the scene

[@robertbonanno5774]

This was an amazing film, especially considering it’s production was in 1928

[@terrancebigham6765]

Delores Costillo also starred in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “Magnificent Ambersons”; here she co-stars with a young Myrna Loy and Noble Johnson, best known for”King Kong”.

[@ritawing1064]

She certainly was a lovely woman!

[@minhthanhhoang4486]

This was a good movie, I wish some studios would remake it again.

[@lesweizman388]

they did....and turned it into a woke fest

[@Giovanni_Dortona]

@@lesweizman388 What? I want to see it. But I don’t want to see a woke fest. I’ll look it up

[@christopherTYJ]

Apparently, not only was John Wayne an extra, but also Ward Bond and Andy Devine. When you see panic, it's real panic. There's a KZbin channel, I Did Not Know That, that has a video about this.

[@BB1951]

Myrna Loy! There's a name that jumped out. She went on to quite a nice career.

[@Gabriel-kx4kc]

Wow!! Just marvelous. Tks for posting.

[@WatchAndSeeThis]

Why are you trying to claim copyright on this film when it is now in the public domain?

[@mr.t114]

Ron Wyatt allegedly found that ship on mount Ararat in Turkey. I never thoroughly followed it up 100% but he had his excavations there for some time. He´s got his own channel here on KZbin so it´s just to check out for anyone interested.

[@senzarigore9088]

Wyatt's claims are fraudulent in "the category of trash which one finds in tabloids such as the National Enquirer". He has been criticized by scientists, historians, biblical scholars, and some creationists, and are not considered credible by professional archaeologists and biblical scholars.

[@sara-nb5qv]

This Movie got powerful scenes,, how they did it!!!

[@fload46d]

God could easily do this again. He promised no more water but He could do it with fire from the sky, etc.

[@Francis-m2d]

Yep...a god of love....thinking of new ways to kill us...

[@phillipstephens4522]

Yep! Human eating aliens from the furthest reaches of space, animals revolting against man for polluting the earth, hiring a bunch demons to slaughter all of us, raising up an army of vampires to bleed us dry, attacking us with an army of werewolves (most of which live in Washington D.C.). Volcanoes, earthquakes and ACID rain. He could bury us all under tons of paper like The Motel of the Mysteries. The list is endless. The movie Lifeforce comes to mind!!

[@ritawing1064]

Glad to see an apostrophe of fire in Noah's vision: correctly placed, too.

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Noah: Amen 🙏

[@Thesyndicate11111]

This is great!

[@aresee8208]

That Michael Curtiz. He certainly got around.

[@bardo0007]

With today's AI technology it should be possible to make a colorized version of this and make it a lot brighter- Since it's in the public domain I guess anyone can try to improve this copy ?

[@mitchellalexander9162]

40:05 >To My Sonny Boy God Bless you Mother The Last Time I heard about the Story of a Soldier Beloved by their Family and wanting them to come home safe it was over in Paramount's Wings (1927) and that guy got Merced because he forgot his Teddy bear Keychain lucky Charm and got Iced. Soooo....

[@AngelRoseHeaven]

Thank you

[@Arashi_92]

This is awesome thanks 😊

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@johnclark926]

The glowing reviews in this comment section are incredibly funny in light of the reviews of this film back when it was released in the late 1920s. Critics tore this thing to smithereens, with Alva Johnson saying this is “widely conceded to be the worst picture ever made” and the New York Post summarizing the film as “A solid bore, with a very second rate war story in which everything from The Big Parade to date has been shabbily copied”. This is further compounded by the fact that people actually died and were permanently injured for this otherwise unremarkable film. Fast forward ~94 years later, and now what our great-grandparents thought was derivative slop is now being used as a touchstone against our modern-day slop. Pray I don’t live to the year 2113, when Lion King 2019 is given the same reverence!

[@user-nj4xw7lr9r]

Trying to flood one big room to stand for the whole Earth being flooded! Yeah, right!

[@orlandomonge48]

raridade maravilhosa.

[@brithaddenhadden8383]

could you show more complete films ?

[@HonorableMention83]

Distorted. Regeneration precedes faith not faith precedes regeneration bcuz we're dead in sins and trespasses and are at enmity with God.

[@pdworld3421]

Is this actual footage from the deluge???

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

1:26:07 water stunts

[@torgman]

"We have talkies, now! Why are we still silent?! Why can't the audience hear us talk?!"

[@enlightenmententertainment3354]

Thanks for sharing how real people died in this filming. Now I can't watch it. Would it be acting or real people in peril...

[@terrydarhk]

6:32, all I could think about was: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6LRk5KkipyFeKcsi=46suO2Uz0PsYRzI0 (For the curious, the name changed in 1930)

[@litoboy5]

Cool

[@palmereldritch7777]

The day after Armageddon after tomorrow and tomorrow....

[@sharioverend1618]

Mama Mia! That's Noah?

[@rubytroy7756]

❤👏👏👏

[@ricardosalazar5743]

Good movie but lots of fake history about the bible of Noah.

[@Francis-m2d]

Gotta love a homicidal god...

[@jahirareyes1102]

well,go watch something else then.

[@Francis-m2d]

@@jahirareyes1102 That's the spirit!

[@jahirareyes1102]

@@Francis-m2d ??🙄

[@StanleypeterDickinson]

Coulda Woulda Shoulda Gone to Specsavers. Beverly Knight in White Satin Pants no longer Myrna Loy mother nature's girl or buoy. Noah

[@StanleypeterDickinson]

You eggheads be hard-boiled! Jeremy Vine oh it is Tim Vine who sings you are the Vine we are the branches near You.. Waterloo Line.

[@robertc8110]

How did Noah get the dinosaurs on the ark.?

[@wdobni]

its just a mish mash of news clips and biblical quotes and it has no story and no plot ... just like they picked up all the leftover cuttings off the editing floor and spliced them all together in no particular order with no particular plan

[@freezegopher7054]

Remember this came out in 1928.

[@alternateunreleasedshellac505]

this aged poorly.

[@InternetDarkLord]

The ending at 138:00 is overly optimistic.