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The Screening Room / Feature-length classics

Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

1925 · 70 minutes · Black & white

[FILM: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, 1925]

Tens of thousands of Bakhtiari herders drive their animals across a raging river and over snowbound mountains in Persia to find summer grass. The filmmakers went with them — and went on to make King Kong.

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The river crossing, with flocks and families swimming on inflated goatskins.

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B&W78 min Turksib1929 · Viktor Turin

COLOUR95 min Moonwalk Onec. 1970 · Theo Kamecke for NASA (National Archives)

B&W81 min The True Glory1945 · Garson Kanin & Carol Reed

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