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two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq

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