The Country Comes to Town. Basil Wright, 1933.
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Edition screened: Included on BFI Blu-ray The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 22 minutes.
😸Edition screened: Included on BFI Blu-ray The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 22 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence toward animals.
The Country Comes to Town might provide the most interesting comparison to the dynamic 1929 Soviet Turksib. Wright emulates the progressive Russian typography, low camera angles, and montage effects, but bogs the whole film down with schoolmarmish framing mechanisms and ceaseless babbling narration. There is a certain type of wrong answer that goes beyond demonstrating a failure to learn, and ventures into a proud display of inverted comprehension.
The Country Comes to Town is a documentary promoting modern agricultural methods and includes a segment about large-scale chicken husbandry. Of course we only see happy birds in a clean and healthy environment. The segment about cress farming is especially interesting, featuring young farmers out for a day of work in bow ties and wading boots.