Jaipur, India City of the Sun & Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
16mm film Black & White Silent 1925 33:20
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Summary: Two documentary films depicting Jaipur in India and a nomadic tribe in Iran.
Title number: 21006
LSA ID: LSA/27568
Description: There are two films on this reel spliced together.
Shots of Jaipur, its station, natives of the city engaged on various handicrafts , glimpses of a wedding and a celebration of the Sun Festival. Finally shots of the Astronomical Observatory.
The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
Credits: Cooper, Merian C (Director)
Cast: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Merian C. Cooper
Marguerite Harrison
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