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Noah's Ark
The Great War and the Flood, cut together, by a studio betting everything on scale.
What
A 1928 half-sheet (22 by 28 inches) for the Warner Bros. production directed by Michael Curtiz.
Why
Warners built the picture as a part-talkie transitional epic, and its flood sequence — staged with enormous quantities of real water and hundreds of extras — became one of the industry's cautionary tales about spectacle and safety. It sits exactly on the seam between the silent and sound eras.
Notice
How the deluge is rendered as a diagonal mass, giving the small horizontal sheet a sense of collapse.
“The last silent spectacle, already hearing the future.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Noah's Ark (1928), dir. Michael Curtiz
- Country / studio
- United States · Warner Bros.
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. half-sheet, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
From Silent Hollywood
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