the team of merian cooper and ernest schoedsack produce a documentary of 50 and 000 bakhtiari people and their animal on the summer migration to winter grazing . the basic worth of this film today be a a time capsule of a forgotten people and how they live during what we in the west know a the roaring twenty . a more drastic contrast could not be imagine . rag river and barefoot mountain crossing be brutally realistic and the animal that disappear under the water do in fact die . to make sure that the audience of the time believe that the story take place and a signed certificate of authenticity be offer up at the end . the version that i saw have fascinating iranian music that can stand alone and be appreciate without the film . have say all this and the film be probably of more value to the anthropologist than the casual viewer in search of a good evening entertainment . the crew have just barely sufficient stock to take the shot that they record and there be no fancy camera work result from multiple re take . the western inter title detract from the experience but be in fact a part of the record since they demonstrate how hollywood try to put their spin on the life of an indigenous people live so that they would be appreciate by the audience of the day . off duty entertainment by desert police become a policeman ball . the producer go on to make the docu drama chang ( 1927 ) and the totally commercial king kong ( 1933 ) . the migration theme be use again in people of the wind ( 1976 ) and in himalaya ( 1999 ) . recommend for those who know in advance what they be get into and then highly recommend for them .