How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (German: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache, literally "Observations of a New Language") is a 1976 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion.

[2] It is a 44-minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania.

[3] Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time".

[4] Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers Ralph Wade and Scott McKain as actors in his later film Stroszek.

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