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Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills - traditional or industrial ones -, manipulation of ...
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"FNIM was investing a lot of money in industrial mills, to get even more money out of the Portuguese Government subsidies to grow corn and produce bread. They wanted to give the authorities and the public at large some satisfaction, and make their work look pretty. So they asked a good film director to produce an industrial documentary, like other European countries were doing in the late 1950s. Manoel de Oliveira accepted the job, and did so well that FNIM - and the Government censors - were baffled. They couldn't actually reject the final work, as it corresponded to what they had ordered..."
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Opening cad: «Daily bread requires constant effort from which man emerges dignified.» (It had two more sentences in the 1959 version.)
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Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills - traditional or industrial ones -, manipulation of ...