Films of early exploration introduced by Duncan Carse
Land Beyond the Mountains (1924)
In 1924 the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe across Persia was accompanied - and filmed - by three Americans: the first 'foreigners' ever to have made the great trek with the herds to the summer pastures.
It follows the tribes across the rocky uplands and the fording of rivers by hundreds of people and thousands of animals, 'The greatest piece of continuous action we had ever seen'. At the last mountain barrier the barefoot tribesmen have to dig a path through great snow-drifts, before descending into the pastures - the promised land beyond the mountains.
Narrator Blain Fairman
Film editor KEN BERRY
Producer richard ROBINSON