1925
Thanks Loopy for forwarding this great link.
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life “is a 1925 silent documentary film which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (today Iran) as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures.
The film is Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison’s documentation of their journey from Angora (modern-day Ankara, Turkey) to the Bakhtiari lands of western Iran, in what is now the western part of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province and the eastern part of Khuzestan. They then follow Haidar Khan as he leads 50,000 of his people and countless animals on a harrowing trek across the Karun River and over Zard Kuh, the highest peak in the Zagros Mountains.
The film highlights the extreme hardships faced by nomadic peoples, as well as the bravery and ingenuity of the Bakhtiari.
The film has an engaging but deeply Orientalist tone in presenting the Bakhtiari as unchanging and archaic.
Marguerite Harrison was a spy, a member of American military intelligence, Merian C. Cooper was also allegedly a spy…” read more
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Oh! Is Loopy talking again?
Yes! Back and talking
Time traveling with this documentary is an experience, a sort of a mediation on human destiny. I am glad that you posted the movie.
I wanted to make sure it got as much coverage as possible… and, of course, to make my point about the dirty scumbag idea of nuking them/you….
99 you don’t watch Faux News and other mainstream media: They say that we are going to nuke you!
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Homeyra Khanoum, thanks for sending it to me
Didam invara nemiyayi goftam befrestam:)
You’r welc Sir Bijan
What an amazing film. Unbelievable to watch and go back in time. Everyone should see this.
homara jan age mishe filesho befrst
Salam, man file nadaram va bayad be link-ha-ye post morajee konid.
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