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THE DOCUMENTARY FILM
FILMS OF AFGHANISTAN-MY PAST EFFORTS AND FUTURE PLANS
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{From the Russian)
How did we get permission to run off a reel ?
It is indeed not easy for a man carryng a cinema apparatus to enter Afghanistan, and the « forbidden country » tenaciously kept its frontiers closed to American and British operators in spite of their several efforts to get on its soil.
At the start, we had no better luck : In April 1928, the Afghan Government refused to deliver the necessary visa for our expedition until... the return of the Padishag, Amanulla-Khan, to Afghanistan. We did not however abandon our plan and when Amanulla came over to the U. R. S. S., we reeled off his journey from Moscow to Constantinople.
At Leningrad, we threw on the screen at the Winter Palace one day, before the Padishag, his visit to the Moslem Mosque, which had been cinematographed two hours before.
Puzzled, Amanulla exclaimed, « Plow could you have done it so quickly ? » And then came the question we were waiting for, « How can I thank you ? »
By granting us permission to go to Afghanistan !
After a minute's thought, Amanulla Khan agreed and I trust he will not regret it.
The journey out.
On the map, Afghanistan is not very imposing, especially when compared to the U. R. S. S., but when it is a matter of actually travelling across it, from the Soviet frontier to its Indian boundary, the wearying journey, made on horseback, with a caravan, entails by the most direct route, three weeks full time. It was our method of advance, from the River Amou-Daria to Kabul (via Mazar
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