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Directed by Arthur Lipsett · 1964

A fragmented collage of passing crowds, machines and overheard voices that becomes a haunting commentary on life in a mechanised society.

The legendary avant-garde collage that helped inspire George Lucas's idea of the Force.

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract succession of unrelated views of the passing crowd. A commentary on a machine-dominated society, it is often cited as an influence on George Lucas's Star Wars and his co

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