An investigation into the theory that Mt. Agri in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.An investigation into the theory that Mt. Agri in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.An investigation into the theory that Mt. Agri in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.
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Brad Crandall
- Narrator
- (voice)
Melvin Cook
- Self
- (as Dr. Melvin Cook)
John Warwick Montgomery
- Self
- (as Dr. John Warwick Montgomery)
Frank Moss
- Self
- (as Senator Frank Moss)
Roger Rusk
- Self
- (as Prof. Roger Rusk)
Fred A. Waltz
- Self
- (as Dr. Fred A. Waltz)
Lee Sollenberger
- Japheth
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was another, and one of the most famous, of Sunn Classic Pictures low budget productions that was distributed using the "four wall" technique. The distributor would rent certain theaters in a territory (to retain the entire boxoffice gross) and then spend extravagant sums on saturation advertising, especially TV spots. As a result, he public would flock to these theaters to find higher than normal ticket prices. This technique worked and, despite negative critical reviews, this film reportedly grossed over $50,000,000, an extraordinary sum for the mid-1970s.
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An interesting early example of Fake News
I vaguely remember seeing this movie on TV as a kid. And while I only remember a few actual scenes - I distinctly remember buying into everything the movie said at the time, only to realize years later that pretty much all of it was bull-plop.
A lot of what the movie said was simply false. There have never been any confirmed expeditions that actually found anything remotely resembling Noah's Ark in Turkey or anywhere else.
Other things the movie presented were not exactly false - but nonetheless extremely deceiving. I remember a number of scenes in which a toy boat of the same supposed dimensions of the Ark bobbed in a bathtub while crew members shook the bathtub to simulate waves which would amount to 40-foot tidal waves if the toy Ark were actual size. Lo and behold - the toy Ark didn't sink, thus confirming (at least in the narrator's view) that such a design of real size could survive actual 40-foot tidal waves. Nice analogy - but total rubbish nonetheless since a basic principle of increasing size and mass is that while the strength of an object increases proportionately with its surface area, its weight increases proportionately with its entire volume. It's why you can drop an ant from a height that would amount to a 1000-foot drop for a person, and it will scamper away without so much as a sore ankle. And of course the dedicated scientists who made this movie placed toy boats of different designs into the same bathtub as a control group to demonstrate that only the toy boat that looked like the Ark wasn't crushed by the proportionate 40-foot tidal waves produced by jiggling the tub. And after that world peace broke out, Hillary volunteered to go to jail for violating federal security laws, and Trump released all of his tax records.
While the movie itself is quite bad, it is nonetheless an interesting example of how and why false information spreads so rapidly, and that it is a twofold phenomenon - those who disseminate false information, and those who believe it.
A lot of what the movie said was simply false. There have never been any confirmed expeditions that actually found anything remotely resembling Noah's Ark in Turkey or anywhere else.
Other things the movie presented were not exactly false - but nonetheless extremely deceiving. I remember a number of scenes in which a toy boat of the same supposed dimensions of the Ark bobbed in a bathtub while crew members shook the bathtub to simulate waves which would amount to 40-foot tidal waves if the toy Ark were actual size. Lo and behold - the toy Ark didn't sink, thus confirming (at least in the narrator's view) that such a design of real size could survive actual 40-foot tidal waves. Nice analogy - but total rubbish nonetheless since a basic principle of increasing size and mass is that while the strength of an object increases proportionately with its surface area, its weight increases proportionately with its entire volume. It's why you can drop an ant from a height that would amount to a 1000-foot drop for a person, and it will scamper away without so much as a sore ankle. And of course the dedicated scientists who made this movie placed toy boats of different designs into the same bathtub as a control group to demonstrate that only the toy boat that looked like the Ark wasn't crushed by the proportionate 40-foot tidal waves produced by jiggling the tub. And after that world peace broke out, Hillary volunteered to go to jail for violating federal security laws, and Trump released all of his tax records.
While the movie itself is quite bad, it is nonetheless an interesting example of how and why false information spreads so rapidly, and that it is a twofold phenomenon - those who disseminate false information, and those who believe it.
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- slackline70
- Feb 8, 2019
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- Also known as
- Finders of the Lost Ark
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- Gross US & Canada
- $55,734,818
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was In Search of Noah's Ark (1976) officially released in Canada in English?
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