The Gravy Train | Gordon Bick | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Considers the problems of world food shortages and the connection between food supply and high energy consumption

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

producer

Gordon Bick

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012976

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Agriculture

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Food supply

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural resources

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Food supply

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Food supply

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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