How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... (1976)

Genres - Documentary  |   Release Date - Oct 30, 1976  |   Run Time - 46 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |  
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (German: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache, literally "Observations of a New Language") is a 1976 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. It is a 44-minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania. Herzog has said that he believes auctioneering to be "the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism." Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time."

Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers as actors in his later film Stroszek.

Cinematographer Edward Lachman got his start working with Herzog on this film; he would work on La Soufrière (1977) shortly after.

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Subject: World Livestock Auctioneer Championship

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Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
DE
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
IT, GB, US
How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
, DE
Ile drzewa naciąłby świstak. Uwagi na temat nowego języka
PL
Άσπρη πέτρα ξέξασπρη
GR
Заметки о новом языке
, RU