Khan Baba Motazedi
Khan Baba Motazedi () (1892 in Tabriz - 1986 in Tehran) was a pioneer in Iranian motion picture photography. Motazedi, during the reign of Persia's Ahmad Shah Qajar, at 17 years of age, traveled from Persian (Iran) to Lausanne, Switzerland to study French and English, traveling to Paris, two years later, to study electro-mechanical engineering. I Motazedi returned to Iran after Persia's coup d'état of 1299 with a "Gamun" camera, a projection projector, and a collection of French films, and began making documentaries in his homeland. Filming his family and then the family of "Ahmad Hassan  Mirza", the crown prince of Ahmad Shah, is the subject of his first experience. After that, filming Reza Shah Pahlavi in the Constituent Assembly and his swearing-in ceremony to the constitution in the National Assembly (December 1304) are considered to be professional and lasting works of Khan Baba. Before long, Motazedi's reputation as the most capable Iranian cinematographer rises to the attention of the Royal Court. The coronation ceremony in Golestan Palace, the inauguration of Iran's National Railway construction, the Constitutional Celebration in the National Assembly, the Armed Forces Parade, the inauguration ceremony of Iran's Scouts , the inauguration ceremony of the Risbaf factory, the inauguration ceremony of Radio Tehran are some of his works in Tehran cinemas and military centers. Considering the titles of Motazedi's films, it can be said that the second twenty years of documentary-film production in Iran (1319-1299) found a direction in news-advertising, a trend that flourished more years later and became the mainstream of documentary filmmaking in Iran. Simultaneously with his filmmaking activities, Motazedi, was the General Directorate of Iran's Customs during the early years of the Mohamad Reza Pahlavi. Motazedi was awarded the first-class scientific  medal of the Ministry of Education, Endowments and Endowed Industries on June 26, 1313, as the first Iranian cinematographer of the first Pahlavi royal court.