| IRAN City with colourful dome in the centre, exterior of town all buildings in sand colour. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 9169 |
| Catalog #: | 23647 | |
| Clip Number: | 23647-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4614 B | |
| Timecode: | 01:14:33 - 01:17:23 | |
| Location: | Iran | |
| Year Shot: | 1973 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Religious, Misc CULTURAL GROUPS: Arabs FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/MIDDLE EAST: Iran (Persia) RELIGION: Islam (Muslim, Molsem) SCENICS: Urban SHOPPING: Open-Air Markets | |
| Description: | IRAN General shots of various mosques in Iran. (religious buildings. mosques, Islamic architecture, mosaics, Islam, Iran, Arab) GVs and telephoto of details of the beautiful elaborately decorated buildings with abstract designs & Arabic writing in carved stone and mosaics. CUs panning on mosaic. Impressive exterior with intricate mosaics predominantly in blue of Shah Mosque ( Masjed-e Shah Mosque) in Isfahan. GV Teheran, Iran, panning on ancient looking buildings, all sand-colored. LS looking up a very narrow street. Always several people in view walking , riding bicycle, sitting outside doorway. Most men and kids in western style clothes, but the women are heavily veiled and all in dark colors. Little girls as young as 10 or so also have robes (though some wear them sorta halfway clutched around them or hanging at their backs.) Shot from dark tunnel looking pointed arch leading out to a roofless passageway between 2 walls; nice contrast dark/ light; black-robed woman walks away from cam, followed by a man carrying a pole. In market: MS boy kneels on ground with men's legs all around him; melons are being tossed to him and he is catching them and stacking them in a pile. | |
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