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Chicken Real

1970 23 min English
Wubly rating 6.6 IMDb rating 6.5

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilarious, disturbing and surreal look at a large-scale chicken farm producing 156 million chickens a year! Film includes lots of chicken songs and music recorded live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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Les Blank Director

United States release January 1, 1970 · Produced in United States

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United States · January 1, 1970

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