A silent color film sequence of Arg-é Bam, the adobe Citadel of Bam, Iran, from 1956. This sequence is from amateur filmmaker John W. Rowe's travelogue of a car rally between Geneva, Switzerland and Bombay, India. Bam and its Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The film clip is from the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution collection of historical moving images. http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=N24OE48279300.2241&p...
It still looked just the same when I visited 40 years later. I guess not too many other people went round destroying bits of the walls (0:47).
CarricThura 3 years ago
Rare film. Poor Bam almost destroyed by earthquake.
Hesam0000 3 years ago