Noah's Ark ark could contain all the animals in the world, argued that Moses, the traditional author of the book of Genesis, had been brought up in Egypt and would therefore have used the larger Egyptian cubit. He also fixed the shape of the ark as a truncated pyramid, square at its base, and tapering to a square peak one cubit on a side; it was not until the 12th century that it came to be thought of as a rectangular box with a sloping roof. Early Christian artists depicted Noah standing in a small box on the waves, symbolizing God saving
Captain Noah and His Magical Ark Sunday morning leading out of ABC Sunday-morning cartoons and into the "Al Alberts Show". The show also featured four cartoon shorts per day during the week. These included Gumby, Popeye (the made for TV cartoons from the 1960s only), Porky Pig (pre-1940 and post-1947 episodes), and Bugs Bunny (post-1948 episodes). In 1975, when ABC began their morning show "Good Morning America", WPVI-TV opted to preempt that in favor of "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark." Starting in September 1976, WPVI began running the 7:00 a.m. hour of "Good Morning America" and scaled "Captain Noah" back to the 8:00 a.m. to