WIT AND IMAGINATION
A NEWS' REVIEWER BECOMES ENTHUSIASTIC. The following are exceipts from a report in the New York Herald-Tri-bune which was entirely devoted to " Father Noah's Ark ": "The best picture in town, and I haven't forgotten that 'Cavalcade,' upon which I lavislh. a superlative or two, as still >on display here—is a screen short that runs for probata 1 y *ten minutes. It is, to keep you in suspense no longer, a Walt Disney ' Silly Symphony,' done in colour. It is called " Father Noah's Ark." '" It may be a good idea to start by saying something about the subject matter of this ' Father Nbalh's Ark.' It is difficult enough for me to describe plots in any case, let alone in such a specialised one as that of a Walt Disney fab'e; but anyway in this instance the story is, that of the Biblical, tale of the deluge, with variations.; Fpr example, the film tells things about the part played by the animals in the building of the ark that have so far escaped the annals of the period. There are implied details, too, of the sex life of the rabbits aboard that have not hitherto been recorded. . ' . "Will you permit me to say that ' Father Noah's Ark ' is a masterpiece of wit and imagination, and let it go at that ?"
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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3371, 23 September 1933, Page 9
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