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Collection and recollection: On studying the early history of motion pictures in Iran

Focusing discussion of the terms ‘history’ and ‘Iranian cinema’, the author’s reflections in this article are on the nature of historical recollection at the time of the birth of cinema technologies in Iran. What was the nature of historical narration? What were its terms? How was the past recollected, recorded and reconstituted for the present? What figures, tropes and media played a part? The author argues that how we record, what we remember and recite, matters as much as what we seek out and attach to the thirty‐year history of early cinema.