Marginal Noah's Ark cartoons
Bible Films Blog
by
1w ago
I recently posted a list of 'all' the screen productions to adapt the story of Noah and the flood. As ever with these things you soon remember how impossible it is to list them 'all': there are just too many. With a story as popular as this there are always brief fantasy sequences where lead characters imagine themselves as Noah, or something that someone has just created for YouTube (how many views of an original Noah adaptation make it a worthy production in itself). Anyway, as part of that process I went back on forth several times on a handful of films that all landed somewhere around the ..read more
Visit website
Gospel Films Library: Scores of old Bible films free on GFA's new website
Bible Films Blog
by
2w ago
At various times in the past I've mentioned the wonderful work done by Bob Campbell and the rest of the team at the Gospel Films Archive in preserving mid-20th century biblical films and other Christianity-related films.  So it's really exciting to mention their new website – Gospel Films Library – where you can now view dozens of old biblical movies, not only for free, but also without any ads etc. There's a really good range of these films available from short, rarely-treated stories from the Hebrew Bible such as Ruth (1948) to those released in cinemas such as Day of Triumph (1954, my ..read more
Visit website
Noah's Ark: A Musical Adventure (Arca de Noé, Brazil, 2024)
Bible Films Blog
by
1M ago
Despite all my research into the story of the flood in recent months, somehow I almost missed the release of Noah's Ark: A Musical Adventure, or as it is known in it's native Brazil, simply Arca de Noé. It's an animated film that sits squarely in the box of animation for kids and hit theatres in the UK rather aptly during the summer holidays when parents often find themselves seeking shelter from the rain. Arca is inspired by a 1975 poem by Brazilian poet, musician, playwright and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes, perhaps best known outside of his own country for pioneering bossa nova music o ..read more
Visit website
'Full' list of Noah and the Ark films
Bible Films Blog
by
1M ago
Many years ago I posted a "full list" of Adam and Eve films though it's perhaps not as complete as I thought it was back then. Nevertheless, given I'm looking at Noah films at the moment, I thought it was about time I posted a similar list of films about the flood and Noah.  I've restricted these to films which either try and tell the story set in the ancient world, or that are offering a direct modernisation. That means I'm excluding films like Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) which offer modern parallels, but not explicitly, or Moonrise Kingdom (2012) which draw on the imagery and mea ..read more
Visit website
Noah adaptations p07: Islamic Texts
Bible Films Blog
by
2M ago
This is part 5 of a series investigating adaptations of the "Noah" story. Click on images to enlarge.Left: Illustration from Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi's Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets, C.16th). Right: Hafiz-I Abru's  image from "Majma al tawarikh" (World Histories, 1425). In the last two parts of this series on adaptations of Noah, I looked at Jewish variations of the flood story following the writing of Genesis. Now I want to turn to how Islamic writers tell the story from the Qur'an onwards. Firstly to be clear. I am very much a newcomer to these texts ..read more
Visit website
The Tale of the Ark (1909)
Bible Films Blog
by
2M ago
The earliest film about Noah and the flood is The Tale of the Ark (1909) by British animation pioneer Arthur Melbourne Cooper. It's currently available for free on BFIPlayer, in the UK at least, and seems to also have been circulated under the title Noah's Ark. I don't know much about Cooper, but he apparently learnt some of his skills from the legendary British cinema pioneer Birt Acres and while I'd love to get into all of that, I simply don't have the time at the moment. So I'll restrict myself to a few passing observations about the film itself. The film begins with a young girl pla ..read more
Visit website
Noah adaptations p05: Jewish Texts After the Hebrew Bible
Bible Films Blog
by
2M ago
This is part 5 of a series investigating adaptations of the "Noah" story. "The Animals Entering Noah's Ark" (1570s) by Jacopo Bassano In the last part of this series on adaptations of Noah, I looked at the variations of the flood story that were brought together to form Genesis. Now I want to turn to how Jewish writers continued to amend and adapt the flood narrative after Genesis had been written. While the number of Jewish sources that do something with the flood narrative are too numerous to track, I'm going to focus on the main ones here, written in the Second Temple ..read more
Visit website
In the Beginning: The Story of Noah (1986)
Bible Films Blog
by
3M ago
Back in 2020 I wrote an initial post about a Japanese anime series Kyuuyaku Seisho Monogatari (In the Beginning) initiated by the renown director Tezuka Osamu. I meant to write up a few entries of the series, particularly the ones that almost included Nehemiah, but apparently never got around to it. However, now I'm doing a deep dive on adaptations of Noah, I thought now would be a good time to revisit that entry at. least, and maybe start the ball rolling with the others. As it happens, The Story of Noah, is not a bad place to start, because it was the pilot and was finished around 1986, si ..read more
Visit website
The Chosen (2021) s2e04
Bible Films Blog
by
3M ago
One of the features of The Chosen is that it often likes to start episodes in novel fashion. This time around  the episode starts with a long, wordless montage, introducing two brothers. They start as young boys and through the sequence of shots, gradually grow up to become the men. We witness one of them fall from a tree and damage his leg, which appears to have permanent consequences. We see them watch their father remarry. We watch as the younger brother (Simon) begins to seethe at Roman injustice and then leaves the family home. And then the elder brother (Jesse) leaving too to ..read more
Visit website
Noah adaptations p04: How Genesis develops the flood story
Bible Films Blog
by
4M ago
This is part 4 of a series investigating adaptations of the "Noah" story. "Noah’s Ark" by Greek painter Theodore Poulakis (1622–1692). In the last part of this series on adaptations of Noah, I looked at the variations of the flood story that were brought together to form Genesis, namely the Priestly and non-Priestly material, but what I didn't go into was some of the key changes those two "sources" and the "final" text of Genesis makes to the Babylonian traditions before them. These changes are fairly wholesale, which is partly because I'm compressing a few layers of evol ..read more
Visit website

Follow Bible Films Blog on FeedSpot

Continue with Google
Continue with Apple
OR