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Potatoes

Robert Lang

1976 27 min

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This documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with all the ensuing problems and personal hardship. It is an incisive evaluation of what is happening in North American and worldwide agriculture today.

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This documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with all the ensuing problems and personal hardship. It is an incisive evaluation of what is happening in North American and worldwide agriculture today.

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Food and Food Industries

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Credits

• director
  Robert Lang
  
• producer
  Gary Toole
  
  Roman Bittman
  
• executive producer
  Colin Low
  
• script
  Gary Toole
  
• camera
  Savas Kalogeras
  
  Andreas Poulsson
  
• sound
  John Knight
  
• editing
  Robert Lang
  
  Gary Toole
  

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