grass: a nation's battle for life

Documentary Description. It is considered one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films. 50,000 people and 500,000 animals every year would take this 42-day trip from their summer grounds to their winter habitat -- involving over 15,000 feet of elevation over the Zardeh Kuh Mountains. [6] He called it a "damned half picture." ... events of biblical proportions filmed with a sensibility both anthropological and epical. This moving documentary by Merian C. Cooper follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, an impoverished nomadic tribe in Iran, in their never-ending search for fresh grass for their herds. Cultures et élevages par monts et par vaux : quelle lecture archéologique ? [15], Grass was theatrically reissued in the early 1990s. In the Memory of David H. M. Brooks: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) Pedram Khosronejad Marguerite Harrison Date of birth:October 1879, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Date of death: After the death of her husband, she took a job as Assistant Society Editor for the Baltimore Sun. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life 1925, 71 min. [7], The central concern in the making of Grass was to document a way of life that was unknown to all those outside its realm. Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life 1925 Bakhtiari tribe of Persia 31450 HD. [13], Grass was also issued on Video, and in 2004, on DVD: "While the film is silent, it comes with a traditional Iranian score by Gholam Hosain Janati-Ataie, Kavous Shirzadian and Amir Ali Vahabzagedegan which is among the most haunting and melodic ever created for a movie. Vas,Mark 2005 Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, Villard; First edition (August 2, 2005), "Grass" outline, Dec 17, 1947 p.1; MSS 1849, box 13, folder 8, Cooper Papers BYU, Kevin Brownlow, interview with Ernest Schoedsack from cassette tapes of sessions with Merian Cooper, circa late 1960s; made available to the author Mark Vas by Kevin Brownlow, https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/grass-a-nations-battle-for-life-1405/1/, "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress", "New to the National Film Registry (December 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin", http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/movies/grass/1925, http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDGrass.htm, http://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/grass-a-nations-battle-for-life-dvd/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grass_(1925_film)&oldid=994071254, United States National Film Registry films, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 December 2020, at 23:40. V černobílém němém snímku režiséři Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack a Marguerite Harrisonová doprovázejí jeden z perských kočovných kmenů na osmačtyřicet dnů dlouhou cestu přes horu Zardeh Kuh. According to Cooper, however, the filmmakers were unaware of Nanook until their return to New York City from filming in Persia. The river and the mountain climbing scenes are astonishing. Rights to Grass had been donated to the Museum of Modern Art with Milestone Film & Video obtaining the rights in 1990. RICH020669 This is an incredible piece of documentary filmmaking. A classic adventure by the makers of King Kong. vol. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. [3] [4], The film was made by Merian C. Cooper,[1] Ernest Schoedsack,[1] and Marguerite Harrison, with intertitles by Richard Carver and Terry Ramsaye. , the filmmakers were unaware of Nanook until their return to New City. Beautifully captures the soul and spirit of those framed by the makers of King Kong events in Early... 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