Grass (1925 film)

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMerian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Written byTerry Ramsaye
Produced byMerian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
StarringMerian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Marguerite Harrison
Haidar Khan
Edited byTerry Ramsaye
Richard P. Carver
Music byHugo Riesenfeld
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 20, 1925 (1925-03-20)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 documentary film[1] that follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Lurs in Persia as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures. It is considered one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films.[2] In 1997, Grass was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[3][4]

  1. ^ Hall, Mordaunt (April 30, 1927). "Chang A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Part 1: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life & 124 CosmoLearning Anthropology". cosmolearning.org. Archived from the original on September 15, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "New to the National Film Registry (December 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved June 23, 2020.

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