Here's an early short subject by Robert Youngson, doing what he did best: showing that silent movies were good before they learned to talk.
It was produced to publicize Warner Brothers' reissue of NOAH'S ARK, which was a silent epic directed by Michael Curtiz, with some goat-glanded talking sequence; that's a term for some late silent movies that had some talkie sequences added to make it appeal to the big-city audiences who were mad for talking pictures.
Although NOAH'S ARK moved between the Biblical story and a modern World War One story, this short shows the big sequences from the Noah story, highlighting the flood sequences. It's a compelling movie for the growing groundswell of interest in silent movies, which Youngson would return to very successfully.
It was produced to publicize Warner Brothers' reissue of NOAH'S ARK, which was a silent epic directed by Michael Curtiz, with some goat-glanded talking sequence; that's a term for some late silent movies that had some talkie sequences added to make it appeal to the big-city audiences who were mad for talking pictures.
Although NOAH'S ARK moved between the Biblical story and a modern World War One story, this short shows the big sequences from the Noah story, highlighting the flood sequences. It's a compelling movie for the growing groundswell of interest in silent movies, which Youngson would return to very successfully.