GRASS
Our first offering is in the works. It
is called GRASS.
When Cooper and Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison shoved
off eastward from Angora, their objective was definite.
They meant to make such a motion picture as never before
was made.
And make it they did. The picture bears the title
of the book--GRASS--and the book is the story of the making of the picture.
GRASS, the motion picture, is like no other film you ever
saw. It is real--real beyond the power of words to describe.
Together with this story that picture is the entire fruit
of fourteen months' labor.
And at once, Famous Players-Lasky took in on and
are featuring it as the picture accomplishment of years.
Cooper conceived the idea of the picture GRASS, Margureite
Harrison played the lead in it, and the actual making is to the credit of Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack.
Grass is an epic of a people's migration, told by one who
made the journey with them. Authored by Merian C. Cooper.
Among the innumerable tributes which this genuinely unusual
book has received is the following from Kermit Roosevelt: -
"A splendid account, with amazingly interesting pictures,
portraying a unique experience on a trip that could only be undertaken by real adventurers possessed of courage and initiative."
Of this amazing book William Beebe, scientist and author
of the famous Galapagos, World's Ends, writes:
"In this book Cooper presents the migration of the Baktyari
tribe across terrible mountains and ghastly rivers of Persia--and splendidly crystallizes the sights and sounds and
smells and feels of this astounding drama. In the telling Cooper's words and pictures and not the gossip and kodaks
of an onlooking tourist, but have the direct touch of the very tribesmen."
Copyright 2005 Joe E Ross All Rights Reserved.
