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"A Silly Symphony"
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A second short was made based on the Noah story later, 1959's "Noah's Ark".
From Rod Bennett : This short, with its storybook approach and use of negro spirituals on the soundtrack, seems to have been inspired by Marc Connelly's then-current Broadway hit "The Green Pastures." Also, one particular gag here gets memorably recycled seven years later in "Fantasia" : the lightning bolt which finally drives the reluctant donkey aboard the ark is recalled for duty in the "Pastoral Symphony" segment to coax a reluctant "Bacchus" in out of the rain.
From Jerry Edwards : I enjoyed some fun scenes of the animals helping to build the ark. The closing scene scene shows large dogs rushing off the ark to a large trees while puppies rush to a small sapling. Disney later did a 1959 stop-motion short called "Noah's Ark." I tend to get the two titles mixed up, since I automatically assume "Noah's Ark" would be the title for the first short.
From Gijs Grob : The biblical story of Noah has been quite popular with the Disney Studio: it has been retold on film three times. 'Father Noah's Ark' is the first version, the others are a stop motion film from 1959 and a sequence from Fantasia2000 featuring Donald Duck. This cartoon tells the age old story as a musical, including some gospel singing. The story is quite straightforward and the short contains only a few mild gags. The design seems to be half-hearted: Father Noah's sons look ridiculously cartoony, wearing Mickey Mouse type gloves, for instance. Their wives, on the other hand, are designed in art deco fashion. The animals, too, are in different stages of naturalism, but the cows portraited are much more realistic than the ones featured in the Mickey Mouse shorts of the same time. The most stunning naturalism is found in the animation of the sea when the ark is at the mercy of the waves. This is a spectacular scene by all means.
From Ryan : This is probably the only Bible story that Disney made a cartoon of (they later made another version using office supplies). The people in this cartoon are primitively animated compared to those in feature films such as "Snow White" and "Pinocchio." I particularly like the gag at the end in which the dogs get off the ark and run toward a fire hydrant.
From Kyle Peters : Who built the ark? Father Noah! It is so funny but it wasn't perfect. Nothing is, right?
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