Synopsis
Shows how State of Maine broilers (chickens) should be barbecued. In the backyard, lawn sports and modern dance.
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Details
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Hello.. and goodbye! · Spuzz · 2019-05-31
My god, another film that comes just at the right time to provide a whiff of strangeness to the archive. An opera group gets to perform in an opera house somewhere in Maine for the summer months! Isn't that exciting? But wait, that's not what the film is about! No, on days off, they go for barbecues on the lake! Strange instructions on how to cook the bird, well, the recipe I suppose is not strange, it's just the group fawning over the raw chicken being split in half, anyways, you have that, and also fun beach activities! And then, back to the chicken! Just doesn't let up. Bookended by the…
★★★ · A Strange Movie · JSBejma · 2015-01-25
How to barbecue chickens using a large barbecue pit. Personally, I like the recipe for the swabbing sauce - finally something besides that awful southern style barbecue sauce which ruins the taste of and overpowers everything its put on. She refers to those birds as broilers. They look awful big for broilers. The opening scene in the thee-ah-tah is bizarre and totally out of the theme; and some of this film looks like a home movie with the talk about how to do chicken almost superimposed.