How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (film)

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
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Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Werner Herzog
Starring	Werner Herzog; Steve Liptay; Ralph Wade; Alan Ball; Abe Diffenbach;
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Cinematography	Thomas Mauch
Edited by	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Production; companies	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion; Süddeutscher Rundfunk;
Distributed by	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release date	14 February 1977 (West Germany);
Running time	45 minutes
Country	West Germany
Languages	English ; German

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.^[2] It is a 44-minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania. The film also contains a section about the Amish and shows Amish speaking Pennsylvania German.

Herzog has said that he believes auctioneering to be "the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism".^[3] Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time".^[4]

Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers Ralph Wade and Scott McKain 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.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Cronin, Paul (2014). Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Faber and Faber. p. 524. ISBN 9780571259779. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ Aitken, Ian (2013). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge. p. 363. ISBN 9780415596428. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ DVD audio commentary for Stroszek
^ Herzog, Werner; Cronin, Paul (2002). Herzog on Herzog. London; New York: Faber and Faber. p. 140. ISBN 9780571207084.
^ LoBrutto, Vincent (1999). Principal photography : interviews with feature film cinematographers. Westport, Conn. : Praeger. p. 122. ISBN 9780278639549. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

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[Cronin-1] Cronin, Paul (2014). Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Faber and Faber. p. 524. ISBN 9780571259779. Retrieved 14 January 2016.

[2] Aitken, Ian (2013). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge. p. 363. ISBN 9780415596428. Retrieved 14 January 2016.

[3] DVD audio commentary for Stroszek

[Herzog-4] Herzog, Werner; Cronin, Paul (2002). Herzog on Herzog. London; New York: Faber and Faber. p. 140. ISBN 9780571207084.

[5] LoBrutto, Vincent (1999). Principal photography : interviews with feature film cinematographers. Westport, Conn. : Praeger. p. 122. ISBN 9780278639549. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

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Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
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