1925 ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILM " GRASS " MIGRATION OF BAKHTIARI TRIBE OF PERSIA / IRAN XD13934
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Dating to 1925, this silent film "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" is one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films ever made. This version runs 57 minutes. The film was also released in a slightly longer version of over 70 minutes by Paramount, and in digest form from Kodak as part of its Kodascope Library. The film follows members of the Bakhtiari, a sub-tribe of the Lurs, in Persia -- modern-day Iran -- as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures. The film was directed and filmed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, with financing provided by Marguerite Elton Harrison and Cooper's family. The journey was the first ever undertaken by Westerners with the Bakhtiari. The first part of "Grass" documents the ancient caravan route from Angora (modern Ankara, Turkey) to the Bakhtiari lands in Persia (western Iran in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province and the eastern part of Khuzestan). It then shows leader 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 was made at a critical juncture, as just 20 years later, this type of migration was being made with trucks and by train, instead of on foot. Also, the position of the tribe changed greatly in the years after the film was made. Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925-1941) made the destruction of the Bakhtiari influence in Persia part of his mission, in part due to the existence of oil on Bakhtiari territory A few tribal leaders were executed by Pahlavi in order to crush Bakhtiari autonomy.
The documentary preceded and influenced another, more famous film made by Cooper and Schoedsack, namely King Kong (1933). Grass was distributed by Paramount Pictures and shown publicly in New York on March 30, 1925.
Marguerite Elton Harrison (1879-1967) was an American reporter, spy, film maker, and translator who was one of the four founding members of the Society of Woman Geographers. Merian Caldwell Cooper (1893 - 1973) was an American aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was member of the Explorers Club, and is credited as co-inventor of the Cinerama film projection process. Cooper's most famous film was the 1933 movie King Kong.
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Amazing! such strong determined people their resilience is unfathomable
Thank you so much for posting this!! I saw this once in a college class I was in and have been wishing I could find it ever since!
Imagine my surprise when I just searched "grass historical film" in UA-cam and got this as my top result!
You've seriously made my day! 😃
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The book, Spontaneous Evolution brought me to this documentary. My prayers go out to those who transitioned during this arduous journey.
این ها اقوام من هستند بیش از یک قرن از آن زمان گذشته مردمانی نجیب مهمان نواز و آریایی تبار ❤
nothing short of absolutely amazing adventure
As I sit on my ass watching this on a computer. Remember, someone set up a camera and filmed this entire journey.
The most fabulous film on an ethnic/nomadic life, from 100 years ago.... It is a miracle it was filmmed (crossing the 'mighty Karun' on those bulky film cameras), and even more so that it has survived. Much younger films have not. Only if they had not printed that bloody counter on the bottom in such a large size to cover the spoken texts, and put their logo at the corner, not in the center bottom where important information is given by the original explorer....
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@@PeriscopeFilm Thank you so much fort the detailed response. Your work is assisting history to last forever. 1000 years from now, people will mention your channel as one of the sources for things surviving the ages
Modern societies can provide for every necessity. Except for Necessity! When you have to accomplish something - in this case, survival - you soar!
Subhanaallah
¡BELLISIMO!💐
Only the strongest survived in this tribe under these brutal conditions of covering the highest peaks of the Zagros and rivers to summer pastures with their flocks and families.
2,57 I am not sure if it is Ak Köprü in Ankara! Burası Ak Köprü olamaz gibi geldi bana çünkü çok yüksek!
Isn't there a version of this with a soundtrack entirely made up of the traditional music of this nomadic tribe? I saw it on PBS or something a decade or more back.
4.56 Bu kervansaray Kadınhanı olabilir mi?
Is corn grass?
Actually, yeah I believe it is - it supposedly derives from a type of grass called "teosinte" (no idea if I'm spelling that right, but that's how it's pronounced, anyway).
سلام .اینها اقوام و اجداد من بودند .نه علف به معنی ذرت نیست .هر گیاه روییدنی که از زمین سبز میکنه و گو سفندان میتونن ازش استفاده کنند رو میگن علف .اقوامی سخت کوش مهمان نواز در حال حاضر خبری از این نوع زندگی نیست فیلم مربوط به ۱۰۶سال پیش است
the original film had music
Kurd!
LUR we are not kurd
Ananın ami kurd Ankara var
This land is in Turkiye. Ankara and Konya region.
@@alievler9942 the first 16 minutes it is in Tukey. The rest is in Iran and the Bakhtiari nomads still going in modern day Iran!
poor goats
This man has confused the Bakhtiari Tribe with Arabs and Arabistan, absolutely wrong, They have nothing to do with Arabs and Arabia, They are a Kurdish Tribe and Kurds are not Arabs and don't live in Arabia and their settlement is Kurdistan and they speak Kurdish not Arabic.
We are LUR this is literally my family
Kürtistan adında bir devlet hiç olmadı ve olmayacak
öyle bir yer yok siz hiç bir xaman devlet kurmadınız ve kuramayacaksınız
Bakhtiaris are not Kurd! they are Lur!
BAKHTIARI TRIBE is KURD
actually Bakhtiaris are Lur not Kurd.
@@PCAccount9000 🤣😂😂 go back to hinudstan dreamistani
no they are not Kurds! they are Lur!