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Title:

Grass : a nation's battle for life / a Paramont Picture ; [presented by] Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky ; recorded for the screen by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack with Marguerite Harrison.

Publisher:

Milestone Film & Video,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

1 videocassette (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Bakhtiari (Iranian people)
Middle East--Description and travel.

Other Authors:

Paramont Pictures, inc.
Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86041216
Cooper, Merian C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90010570
Schoedsack, Ernest B., 1893-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86041341

Notes:

Videocassette release of the 1925 film.

Summary:

A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams, and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three people were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make this migration with the tribes.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25422105

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)