Chicken Real

• Documentary
• 1970

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.

Chicken Real is a movie first shown in 1970. Runtime is 23 minutes. Status: Released. Genres: Documentary. TMDB score 7.0/10 from 2 votes.