Not knowing French I can't determine that this movie is talking about the same alleged discovery of Noah's Ark as that discovered by the American Ron Wyatt. Are they one and the same? Just curious.
In answer to your question, hollingsworth, this is not a movie about one particular "alleged discovery" but a chronology and docuмentary regarding the past 2 millennia of man's
numerous encounters with the Ark of Noah. If Ron Wyatt was one of them, and he is not mentioned, perhaps there have been many MORE such explorers whose experiences are not mentioned in this film. The doubters of the Ark's existence would look upon such overwhelming evidence as "unreliable" because it is, well, too prolific to be believable.
There is no one so blind as the man who refuses to see.
The film has the following message displayed on the screen at the beginning:
Les 32 premieres de la video concernent les Preuves Historiques et Expeditions. Les restant de la video parle des Preuves scientifiques. The first 32 of the video relate to the historical evidence and shipments. The remainder of the video talked about the scientific evidence.
At minute 1, Dr. Philip Hammond, professor of anthropolgy has something to say in English, but it can't be heard because of the loud French voice above it.
At minute 2, Dr. John Morris professor of geology, reports, although his English voice is drowned out by the French narrator.
At min. 3, Dr. David Richardson starts to say something and is overshadowed in short order.
At min. 4, someone spends 15 years on this but his name is not written - it sounds like "Smith."
At min. 5, Dr. Charles Berlitz, author of
Le Vaisseau perdu de Noe (Anglais) cannot be heard.
At min. 6, Dr. Ethel Nelson, linguistic specialist on Chinise scripture, talks about the Flood account but what she says we can't hear because the narrator is translating it into French.
At min 7 a map is displayed of 29 locations worldwide where ancient writings describing a worldwide flood have been found, followed by Dr. Tim LaHaye, author of Noah's Ark (in English), but he cannot be heard because of the overdubbed translation.
At min 7:30, Richard Bright starts to say how he has studied every known historical sighting, (missing words) and has compared 34 of these sites.
At min 8 they begin on expeditions, beginning in 475 B.C. (they use "-475"). Dr. Rodney Vliet professor specialist in culture studies, followed by Dr. Carl Davis, historian in ancient scripture, on "-25" (25 B.C.)
At min 9 they move on to 360 A.D. ("360"), with a glass box with some old wood shown; followed by 1254 and 1269, with some guy in a monk suit (Aquinas? Not fat enough!), and then Marco Polo, and 1829 and "Tremblement de Terre de 1840" (Earthquake of 1840). Then it's on to Journey to Ararat, by Friedrich Parrot, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of the ??? Russian Imperial ??? of State ... etc.
At 10:44, the question is asked, "After the earthquake of 1840, what was the state of the Ark?" The vast quake formed a rupture and cravass in the mountain, which tore the Ark in two. It took 5,000 years for this to occur. Why 1840? The movie cannot explain that.
At minute 11 a queue of 5 mountaineers in period attire are shown hiking uphill in 1845 to 1850, from an ariel motion picture. Unfortunately, neither motion pictures nor helicopters had been invented yet. (Obviously, it's a re-enactment.)
At min 12 the year 1877 appears and the name James Brice is heard. An illegible article of the New York Times is panned in poor resolution, but the headline, "Noah's Ark Discovered" is seen over one section. Charles Darwin is depicted as well as his best-selling book, but probably to little profit.
At min. 13, there's another earthquake, "Tremblement de Terre de 1883," and another picture of On the Origin of Species, followed by the year 1902, the final year of Leo XIII's pontificate, when he made his famous recording of the Ave Maria, now on YouTube.
At min. 14, Dr. Elfred Lee says something, covered up in French, and then it's on to 1916 and 1917 (the year of Fatima). Crop-duster-figher-biplanes take off and fly around while the narrator speaks more French, about what, I don't know. This takes a minute, during which time it appears that some pilots see something sticking out of the side of a mountain somewhere.
At min 15, some guy in a fez hat takes photographs of a mock-up of the Ark. Megan Butler, editor of
Anastasia, the Lost Princess (in English) mentions a controversy of something but a French woman's voice obliterates her California accent.
At min. 16, it's on to 1945-50, with WWII bomber pilots leaping into their planes, and flying over the middle east. A French magazine is shown with "Lawrence of Arabia" in French on the cover.
At min. 17, Vence Will of the US Air Force (2eme Guerre Mondiale) gives his testimony, which is dutifully covered up with the French translation of it, apparently. It seems that whatever he saw, it impressed him enough to build a model of it using a 2x4 with beveled top and a 3/8" x 1" strip running down the length of the top looking a lot like the ridge vent of the Ark. He props his model up on a book and waves his arms as if to show movement of something like snow or dirt. He is very serious about his description. Imagine how cavalier Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking would be about this topic.
At min 19, it's 1952 and 1955. At 19:08, the picture shown in the ready-to-play YouTube embedded video is seen: a man on the right and a boy on the left, seated with backpacks, looking at the camera. It's titled Navarre family film images. Fernand Navarra speaks.
So far there has been at least one new witness each minute or report of research done. The whole movie is generally like this, so there are probably over 30 visitors to the Ark and/or testimonies of people who have done serious research on historical records of others who have seen it or recorded such credible testimony.
At min. 29:14, they show a Bible verse (Gen. 8:4) which ends with the word "Ararat." The man reading it ends with the word AHH-HAH-HAH. This is something I have been hearing again and again but had no idea what they were saying. Now I see that's the French pronunciation of Ararat.
It seems to me this could be why the English world ignores this film, because it sounds like everybody in it is laughing at themselves.
AH-HA-HA.
The name Ron Wyatt does not occur in this movie. Maybe if they were to say his name with a French accent it would be
"Rah-ha-ha," and maybe Wyatt doesn't like to hear people laughing about his project or his own NAME.
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Topic: ELEISON COMMENTS CCCXLIX - March 22nd, 2014 (Read 3777 times)