¹Compiled from Hamid Sho'aie, Farhang Cinema-ye Iran [A Cinema Dictionary of Iran] (Tehran: Herminco Co., 1354 [1975]).

²Pars Film was founded after Esmail Koushan's first film studio, Mitra Films, burned down.

³In 1955 the name was changed to Venus Film.

⁴It was founded to produce 16 mm films for the Iranian armed forces, with 16 mm black and white, color laboratories, and 16 mm film equipment.

⁵A 16 mm laboratory with necessary 16 mm film equipment, later developed into one of the most up-to-date film centers in the Middle East, with both 16 mm and 35 mm facilities and color processing laboratories. This studio was set up under the supervision of American technicians from Syracuse University and financed by USAID mission to Iran.

⁶The first studio founded by a woman in Iran, in whose first production was MARJAN (1956), the first feature film in Iran which was produced and directed by a woman, Ms. Shahla.

⁷At first it was a private television station in Tehran with small 16 mm black and white processing labratory and 16 mm motion piture equipment mainly for making newsreels, and owned by Habib Sabet. In 1966 Television Iran was purchased by the government and by 1967 when National Iranian Television (NITV), was founded, it became part of NITV. NITV later changed its name to National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT), which now is one of the largest and most up-to-date motion picture studios in the world, complete with black and white and color laboratories (8, supper 8, 16, & 35 mm), computerized Qxbery animation stands and abundance of film equipment and raw stock, for example, they own over 120 $7000 reel to reel tape recorders.

⁸This company produced only the one film listed here.