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The Animals Film is a 1981 feature documentary film about the use of animals by human beings, directed by Victor Schonfeld and Myriam Alaux, and narrated by actress Julie Christie.

The Animals Film
25th Anniversary Edition DVD cover
Directed by	Victor Schonfeld & Myriam Alaux
Written by	Victor Schonfeld
Produced by	Victor Schonfeld & Myriam Alaux
Narrated by	Julie Christie
Cinematography	Kevin Keating
Edited by	Victor Schonfeld
Music by	Robert Wyatt
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Synopsis

The Animals Film presents a survey of the uses of animals in factory farming, as pets, for entertainment, in scientific and military research, hunting, etc. The film also profiles the international animal rights movement. The film incorporates secret government footage, cartoons, newsreels, and excerpts from propaganda films.

Release

The Animals Film was distributed in cinemas in Britain, Australia, Germany, Austria, Canada and the United States, and was broadcast on numerous television networks. The British network, Channel Four, transmitted the film during the Channel's third night on air in November 1982. It generated front-page news in Britain at the time because Channel 4 broadcast a two-hour version of the film shorn of seven minutes of its concluding sequence. The original 136 minute film released in cinemas had been approved with a 'AA' certificate and no cuts by the BBFC, but the Independent Broadcasting Authority instructed Channel 4 that certain scenes in the film could 'incite crime or lead to civil disorder.'[1] Jonathon Porritt and David Winner write that, with over one million viewers, the screening is regarded as "an important moment in the growth of public awareness of animal exploitation."[2] Channel Four screened it again during its Banned series in 1991.

Home media

In 2007 a DVD of The Animals Film was released with a new director's cut (running time 120 minutes[3]), via Beyond the Frame. In 2008 the British Film Institute released a remastered DVD in the UK, incorporating both the original uncensored cinema version and the director's cut.

Reception

Alan Brien, film critic of the UK Sunday Times, wrote of the film: "The most impressive film maudit, possibly too hot to handle... stuffed with footage never before shown, and a wealth of newly-shot material often taken undercover, which documents... mankind's degradation, exploitation, and often pointless torture, of the creatures who share our planet. ...Proves, beyond contradiction, that this behaviour is not just random or personal but part of our organised society, with drug companies, government departments, scientists, military authorities, factory farmers, university research laboratories, for their own selfish ends, for profit in money or prestige. I do not know when I have come out of a screening so moved by the power of the cinema as a medium to transform the entire sensibility of an audience."[4]

British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello says he was moved to reject meat after seeing the film.[5]

In 2010 the BBC World Service broadcast One Planet: Animals & Us, a radio documentary series in which Victor Schonfeld investigates why little has changed since the making of The Animals Film.

Soundtrack

The Animals Film
Soundtrack album by Robert Wyatt
Released	1982
Length	28:11 (original) 19:38 (edited version)
Label	Rough Trade
Robert Wyatt chronology
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975) The Animals Film (1982) Nothing Can Stop Us (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[6]

Robert Wyatt composed an original soundtrack for the film, released in 1982 on Rough Trade Records. The film also features music from Talking Heads and ex-Audience frontman, Howard Werth. Critical reception of the soundtrack was mixed. Ted Mills of album database Allmusic described the soundtrack as "moody" and filled with "tasty-sounding analog synths from the late '70s", but ultimately it "disappoint[s] fans of Wyatt's vocals." It was later issued in a heavily edited form (losing more than 10 minutes, with no explanation given) as a Japanese CD, and all later CD reissues have been cloned from this master.[7]

See also

• List of vegan media
• Earthlings, 2006
• Behind the Mask, 2006

References

External links

• Beyond the Frame DVD
• British Film Institute DVD
• BBC World Service 'One Planet: Animals & Us'
• "Shock and Awe" by Victor Schonfeld – The Guardian, 5 July 2007
• "They Are What You Eat" by Julie Christie – The Guardian, 26 September 2008
• "Fancy a Roast this Sunday? First Watch The Animals Film" by Ken Russell – The Times, 30 September 2008
• The Animals Film at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Фильм животных

«Фильм животных» (англ. The Animals Film) — британский документальный фильм 1981 года, рассказывающий о ежедневной практике жестокого обращения с животными при их эксплуатации в различных сферах человеческой деятельности — от сельского хозяйства и науки до индустрии развлечений.

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