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Agricultural Livestock (4)

  • Animals
    Animals
    Jason Young 2003 1 h 14 min
    Viewer Advisory: This film contains scenes of animal slaughter..

    This feature documentary tells the story of a young couple’s year-long experiment in raising their own meat. On the abandoned farm property they just bought, they decide that if they’re going to eat meat, they should raise it themselves. Over 4 seasons, they get to know the animals, discover their personalities, treat them with respect and eventually slaughter them. Animals takes us deep into the heart of the animal-human relationship, with all its contradictions.
  • Corral
    Corral
    Colin Low 1954 11 min
    Western ballads played on guitar are the only sounds used in this romantic portrait of a cowboy. He rounds up wild horses, lassoing one of the high-spirited animals in the corral, and then goes for a glorious plunging ride across the spectacular Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta.
  • Epidemic Foot and Mouth Disease: Saskatchewan, 1952
    Epidemic Foot and Mouth Disease: Saskatchewan, 1952
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    Larry Gosnell 1952 16 min
    A documentary report on the 1952 outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Saskatchewan. It details the effects of the disease on livestock and explains how the epidemic was brought under control. Made for the federal Department of Agriculture.
  • Pirouette
    Pirouette
    Tali 2002 9 min
    If we are what we eat, then we are having an identity crisis. Because food's journey from farm to plate is a strange one. An old woman has a simple relationship with her animals: she loves them, kills them, eats them. In town, people are first fascinated, then repulsed, by the intimacy between the old woman and their food. A film without words.