Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

King corn [videorecording] : you are what you eat / Balcony Releasing presents a Mosaic Films production, a film by Aaron Wolf ; a co-production of Mosaic Films Incorporated and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; co-produced by Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis ; produced and directed by Aaron Woolf.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video, [2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system.

Subjects:

Corn -- Iowa.

Corn as food.

Corn -- Fertilizers.

Genetically modified foods.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Cheney, Ian.

Ellis, Curt.

Woolf, Aaron.

Balcony Releasing.

Mosaic Films.

Independent Television Service.

Docurama (Firm)

New Video Group.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary in 2006.

Special features: Deleted scenes; "The king corn in the corn belt tour" featurette; "The lost basement lectures" featurette; "WoWz music video; photo gallery; filmmaker biographies.

Camera, Sam Cullman, Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney ; editor, Jeffrey K. Miller ; original music, The WoWz, Bo Ramsey, Spencer Chakedis.

Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, NTSC.

ISBN:

1422909387

9781422909386

1422913511

Publisher Number:

NNVG115041

NNVG110891

Other Number:

213373700

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

217296

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 635.672 King cor

Medium:

[videorecording]