'For animals', wrote Issac Bashevis Singer, 'every day is Treblinka'. The Animals Film is the first film of the Animals Liberation Movement, a comprehensive survey of the injustices committed against animals in Western society, from the casual mistreatment of household pets to the systematic abuse of animals in factory farming and research. Made over a period of two year in Britain and the United States, the film includes interviews, , clandentinley shot footage of stag hunting and pharmaceutical research, and rarely seen material of the military use of animals for training , weapon testing and nuclear research.
Schonfeld's film presents the case for the animals with clarity and integrity, carefully avoiding the obvious pitfalls of sensationalism or heavy-handedness which such a subject offers. It is, in the best sense, provocative, a genuine challenge to our assumptions and our complacency. Without being patronising, it speaks eloquently for those who cannot speak for themselves.