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King corn / Mosaic Films ; Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; Balcony Releasing presents ; a Mosaic Films Inc. production ; a film by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney ; written by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Jeffrey K. Miller ; produced and directed by Aaron Woolf.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Iowa.
- Agriculture.
- Farms--Iowa--Butler County.
- Farms.
- Corn as food--United States.
- Corn as food.
- Corn as feed--United States.
- Corn as feed.
- Corn industry--United States.
- Corn industry.
- Corn--Processing--United States.
- Corn.
- Corn products industry--United States.
- Corn products industry.
- Corn--Processing.
- United States.
- Iowa--Butler County.
- Iowa.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (90 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney are best friends and ecological activists who met at Yale and learned that their great-grandfathers were from the same small town, Greene, Iowa. Their existential shock at learning that their " ... generation was at risk of having a shorter life span than our parents, and it was because of what we ate" prompts a return to their ancestral home--a farming town of just over 1000 people--to spend a year planting and harvesting an acre of corn. In the course of playing their minuscule part in the burgeoning corn industry, they learn about government subsidies, ammonia fertilizer, massively increased yields, and how the system favors mass production over small family farms. There is also the ubiquity of corn in food, from corn-fed beef to high-fructose syrup that sweetens sodas and other products. The film is a helpful tutorial on American corn production past and present, and an eminently watchable inquiry into the politics of food and public health.
- Credits:
- Edited by Jeffrey K. Miller ; camera, Sam Cullman, Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney ; original music by The WoWz with Bo Ramsey and Spencer Chakedis.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Mosaic Films Inc., c2007.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 22, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-kcorn Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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