Cooper and Schoedsack shot this with no actors, no script, and barely any budget, following the Bakhtiari people of Persia on their real, brutal migration over the Zagros Mountains in search of grazing land -- fording an icy river and then climbing an near-vertical, snowbound pass, on foot, with their herds. The two filmmakers were so taken with adventure filmmaking after this that they went on to make King Kong together eight years later. Grass is now preserved in the National Film Registry as one of the earliest feature-length documentaries.Cooper and Schoedsack shot this with no actors, no script, and barely any budget, following the Bakhtiari people of Persia on their real, brutal migration over the Zagros Mountains in search of grazing land -- fording an icy river and then climbing an near-vertical, snowbound pass, on foot, with their herds. The two filmmakers were so taken with adventure filmmaking after this that they went on to make King Kong together eight years later. Grass is now preserved in the National Film Registry as one of the earliest feature-length documentaries.
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack — USA — Documentary
"Zardeh Kuh is conquered!"
Cooper and Schoedsack shot this with no actors, no script, and barely any budget, following the Bakhtiari people of Persia on their real, brutal migration over the Zagros Mountains in search of grazing land -- fording an icy river and then climbing an near-vertical, snowbound pass, on foot, with their herds. The two filmmakers were so taken with adventure filmmaking after this that they went on to make King Kong together eight years later. Grass is now preserved in the National Film Registry as one of the earliest feature-length documentaries.