A home movie by Mr J.L. McAdam of a trip with his wife to pre-revolutionary Iran to visit friends or family living in Tehran and to see some of the sights both in the city and in the surrounding countryside. A Western family sit at a table eating lunch. They gather outside a house and the man laughingly pretends to take a photograph of the film maker. The film cuts to a street scene, with a stall at the end of a market visible. A woman in a hijab walks past camera with her child. There...

A home movie by Mr J.L. McAdam of a trip with his wife to pre-revolutionary Iran to visit friends or family living in Tehran and to see some of the sights both in the city and in the surrounding countryside. A Western family sit at a table eating lunch. They gather outside a house and the man laughingly pretends to take a photograph of the film maker. The film cuts to a street scene, with a stall at the end of a market visible. A woman in a hijab walks past camera with her child. There are exterior and interior shot of the mosaic covered Golestan Palace. The camera then pans down to show the market stalls. There is a general view of a street scene. Mrs McAdam and a second woman with a child in western dress stand in front of a market stall. A street vendor stands in the street and holds up rugs for sale. Exterior and interior views of The Shah Mosque, now the Iman Khomeini Mosque, and an Iranian family standing by the landscaped pool in the main courtyard. Mrs McAdam and local man in a suit pose by the pool. Various shots follow of Iranian people who are strolling in the grounds of the mosque. Iranian men sitting in the shade of a mosque courtyard, and general views of domes and a minaret of a mosque from outside. Next, the previous couple are looking at a ruin changes to a different ruin on a mountain. People pick fruit from roadside trees. Three men and Mrs McAdam are in the foreground. A man is sitting on barrels on a cart in the background. An Iranian man walks past holding fruit in both his hands. Next, there is a focus on an Iranian woman who covers her face as she passes. There is a general view of a river and animals in the marshland, mountains in the background. An Iranian man carries a sack on his shoulder. Overhead view of a picturesque mountain pass and ribbon road in a barren mountain landscape, with further shots of mountain streams and ravines. There is a closer shot of a mountain house. A woman begins to step out of the doorway of the house, and steps back in again as she notices the camera. Another woman in a hijab crouches by the door beside a boiling pot on a fire. An Iranian man in western dress outside the house speaking with both women followed by them standing outside their house posing for the camera. The next sequence is of fishermen unloading nets from their boats, with large fish freshly caught. A Western woman and several Iranian men look on. Two fishermen carry away the fish on a wooden handled wooden vessel. Close-up of a very large fish. Fish are hoisted up on a wooden structure. Overhead view of a sparsely vegetated mountain-side with a settlement. A bus travels through the mountainous terrain. A small settlement is located beside a stream on stepped fields, followed by a general view of the stepped fields for irrigation. A group of horses with panniers, some ridden by men, pass by. A woman leads a pack-horse. There is a travelling shot of a group of Iranian women with white headscarves. Shots of camels and a nomadic encampment in the desert. Closing landscape shot of sand dunes.