The fifth of seven films 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' to have made the great trek with the herds to the summer pastures. This film follows the tribes across the rocky uplands and witnesses the fording of rivers by hundreds of people and thousands of animals -described by one American as '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.
Narrator BLAIN FAIRMAN
Film editor ken BERRY
Assistant producer DAWN A. SWIRLING
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON