Noah -- played by a peg-legged Farmer Alfalfa -- gets the word that it's going to rain for four forty days and forty nights and assembles a lot of animals in this funny and speculative cartoon from Paul Terry's silent studio, Aesop's Fables.
There are a couple of big gags that were well done, involving modern technology .... well, modern for 1924, but quite startling and therefore quite funny. While the cartoon soon degenerates into a standard series of gags that goes on a bit too long, it's good to notice that Terry, at this stage, was still an aggressively cartoonist, trying to make the best cartoons he could on a backbreaking schedule. His company issued a new cartoon a week, and given that margins in the field were very narrow, between the competition and the fact that hand-drawn animation has long been a very expensive form of movie-making.