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* WrittenSoundEffect: A title card spells out "B-R-R-R" as the Bakhtiari cross a cold mountain stream. Just to make the point stronger, the letters shake.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: There are a lot of jokey title cards. One title card says "Ride 'em, kid!" The movie cuts to a shot of a baby goat--that is, a ''kid''--perched precariously on the back of a donkey as a man guides the donkey through a river.
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* PreciousPuppy: An incredible scene where a puppy hops out of a pouch on a camel's saddle, and the camel nuzzles the puppy.
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** An incredible scene where a puppy hops out of a pouch on a camel's saddle, and the camel nuzzles thepuppy.puppy.
** A later scene shows a little dog riding on the back of a cow as the Bakhtiari cross the mountains.
** An incredible scene where a puppy hops out of a pouch on a camel's saddle, and the camel nuzzles the
** A later scene shows a little dog riding on the back of a cow as the Bakhtiari cross the mountains.
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* JustInTime: A title card actually says "Just in time.", right before cutting to a shot of a man with a float saving two goats that were about to drown in the river.
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* WanderingCulture: The Bakhtiari tribe, making its winter pilgrimage from Turkey to Persia.
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* TitleDrop: Haidar Khan, chief of the Bakhtiari, explains that the grass is withering, so they must move. The title is dropped again in the closing caption, which is also the page quote.
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* TitleDrop: Haidar Khan, chief of the Bakhtiari, explains that the grass is withering, so they must move. The title is dropped again in the closing caption, which is also the page quote.quote.
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''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, 50,000 strong with 500,000 animals, as they make their seasonal migration to better pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong1933''.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong1933''.
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''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, 50,000 strong with 500,000 animals, as they make their seasonal migration to better winter pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called''Film/KingKong1933''.
''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}''.
In 1976 another documentary, ''Film/PeopleOfTheWind'', followed the Bakhtiari on the same journey in the other direction, to their summer pasture land.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called
In 1976 another documentary, ''Film/PeopleOfTheWind'', followed the Bakhtiari on the same journey in the other direction, to their summer pasture land.
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* RoadTripPlot: The first third or so of the film involves Cooper and Schoedsack's journey from Turkey to Iran to meet the Bakhtari, which is arduous in itself. Then the Bakhtari go on their own epic journey to better grassland.
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* DeadlyDustStorm: Cooper and Schoedsack have to deal with "blinding desert sand-storms" while crossing the Anatolian plain.
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* OrganGrinderOrganGrinder: In one Anatolian village a street performer has a dancing baby bear on a leash.
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* SplashOfColorSplashOfColor: The first shot of the movie is what appears to be a hand-tinted scene of a camel train crossing the horizon, against a red sunset.
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''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong1933''.
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''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong''.
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''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong''.
''Film/KingKong1933''.
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''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Chang'', ''Film/{{Chang}}'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong''.
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''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, as they make their seasonal migration to better pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
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''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, 50,000 strong with 500,000 animals, as they make their seasonal migration to better pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
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* SceneryPorn: Some amazing shots of rugged, snowcapped mountains, the river, the plains, the camels silhouetted against the sky.
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** When they reach the Karun River, they make rafts out of inflated goat skins and wood. The crossing is perilous and quite a few of the livestock appear to be lost.
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-> "They have reached the Promised Land--the Land of "Milk and Honey"--the Land of GRASS".
''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, as they make their seasonal migration to better pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Chang'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong''.
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* BookEnds: The Bakhtiari strike their tents at the start of the journey and put them up again at the end.
* CreatorCameo: Cooper and Schoedsack introduce themselves on camera before the film proper starts.
* CrossingTheDesert: Before even reaching the Bakhtiari, the filmmakers have to cross the "salt desert of Anatolia", and deal with sandstorms.
* TheDeterminator: An entire tribe of Determinators. Their sandals aren't suitable for mountain climbing, ''so they climb the mountain barefoot''.
* {{Documentary}}: One of the first, although it was proceeded by ''Film/NanookOfTheNorth'' (1922).
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Not all the time, but when they have to do it to climb a goddamn mountain, they go barefoot.
* PreciousPuppy: An incredible scene where a puppy hops out of a pouch on a camel's saddle, and the camel nuzzles the puppy.
* RepeatCut: Used when the Bakhtiari are striking a tent at the beginning of the journey.
* TitleDrop: Haidar Khan, chief of the Bakhtiari, explains that the grass is withering, so they must move. The title is dropped again in the closing caption, which is also the page quote.
''Grass'' is a 1925 documentary film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a record of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Persia, as they make their seasonal migration to better pasture land. The filmmakers followed the Bakhtiari over the rugged desert of western Persia, across the unbridged Karun River, and over the nearly 14,000 foot Zard-Kuh Mountains, on their way to finding grass for their animals.
''Grass'' was a hit, and allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to follow up with ''Chang'', a similar documentary that was nominated for an AcademyAward for "Unique and Artistic Production". That film also did well, which allowed Cooper and Schoedsack to make a little movie called ''Film/KingKong''.
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* BookEnds: The Bakhtiari strike their tents at the start of the journey and put them up again at the end.
* CreatorCameo: Cooper and Schoedsack introduce themselves on camera before the film proper starts.
* CrossingTheDesert: Before even reaching the Bakhtiari, the filmmakers have to cross the "salt desert of Anatolia", and deal with sandstorms.
* TheDeterminator: An entire tribe of Determinators. Their sandals aren't suitable for mountain climbing, ''so they climb the mountain barefoot''.
* {{Documentary}}: One of the first, although it was proceeded by ''Film/NanookOfTheNorth'' (1922).
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Not all the time, but when they have to do it to climb a goddamn mountain, they go barefoot.
* PreciousPuppy: An incredible scene where a puppy hops out of a pouch on a camel's saddle, and the camel nuzzles the puppy.
* RepeatCut: Used when the Bakhtiari are striking a tent at the beginning of the journey.
* TitleDrop: Haidar Khan, chief of the Bakhtiari, explains that the grass is withering, so they must move. The title is dropped again in the closing caption, which is also the page quote.
