# Persia Faces Today

An Orientalist tour of Iran filmed by the Lawrence Thaw Asiatic Expedition for Esso, Inc. featuring garden imagery, and architecture. A step-by-step description of Persian wool carpet making includes a miniature painting made first as a model, sheep shearing, tradition wool carding with a hammer and bow, wool dyeing, and weaving. Leader: "Print D" Main title: "The Lawrence Thaw Trans-Asia Films, photographed before the outbreak of World War II, are today important Historic Documents - showing people, customs, and Governments many of which now exist only in the pages of the Past. Esso Standard Oil Company invites you to enjoy again in these pictures some of the fascinating and colorful yesterdays of our fast-changing World!" title: "The Esso Marketers present herewith the second chapter in the 22,000 mile trip made by the Thaw Asiatic Expedition from Paris, France, to Bombay, India. The Thaw's motor equipment crossed shifting desert sands, climbed rugged mountain passes and struggled over almost impassable roads in an amazing demonstration of mechanical endurance. Esso dealers may well be proud that the same Esso gasoline, Esso motor oil, Essoleum lubricants, and Atlas tires and batteries which they offer to American motorists played such an important part in the successful performance of the motorized caravan used by the Thaw Expedition over such a grueling route."

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1940
- By: Esso Marketers, John Bransby Productions
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/202965_Persia_Faces_Today)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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