Grass

documentary   Merian Cooper, Ernest Shoedsack

Amazing doc from 1925 on the annual migration of a tribe of 50,000 people and all their animals to summer pastures. They travel through deserts, across rivers and over 15,000 foot mountains to get to the valleys where their animals will thrive. Many are lost on the way. It's astonishing that any make it.

This film put these guys on the map...they then went on to make The Lost World and King Kong.

Extremely impressive feat...both the subjects and the filmmakers.

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