Chicken Real (1970)

• Documentary

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.

Rating

7 / 10 (2 votes)

Release date

January 1, 1970

Runtime

23m

Language

English

Director

Les Blank

Status

Released