The Chicken of Tomorrow
| The Chicken of Tomorrow | |
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| Directed by | Patrick Allen |
| Starring | Lowell Thomas (narrator) |
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Release dates
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1948 (U.S.) |
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Running time
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20 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Chicken of Tomorrow is a 1948 documentary short film about advances in chicken and egg farming. This mini-documentary was narrated by Lowell Thomas and is in the public domain. The film was sponsored by Texaco (known at the time as The Texas Company).
The film was mocked in a seventh-season episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Synopsis
The Chicken of Tomorrow deals with poultry farming and egg farming in the mid-1940s. Filmed to educate the public about how poultry and eggs are farmed, it also deals with how advances in genetic engineering and technology produces a larger chicken. Eggs are farmed and kept in industrial incubators, and an equal number of chickens are used for meat and other products. Altogether, this produces more food for less money, and allows people to support local poultry farms without breaking the bank. This is relatively similar to today's poultry farming despite there now being technological differences.
See also
- List of films in the public domain
- egg
- poultry farming
- genetic engineering
- industrialized agriculture
- List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Chicken of Tomorrow at IMDb
- The Chicken of Tomorrow is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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