The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Italic title Template:Infobox film The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (also known as The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World, The Most Meaningless Movie in the World and Meaningless Movies<ref name="BFIsearch">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a 1968 British underground film lasting 48 hours directed by Vincent Patouillard.<ref name="BFIsearch" /> It was produced by Anthony Scott<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and created as a collaboration with French<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and British filmmakers in association with the Swiss Film Centre and the London Film-Makers' Co-op workshop (both located in London).<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref>

Content

No actual footage was shot for the project, which instead consists entirely of outtakes, commercials, strips of undeveloped film, Academy leader, discarded reels recovered from Wardour Street dustbins, and other filmic cast-off material, creating a seemingly endless stream of news-reel and stock footage.<ref name=":0" /> Many segments are shown upside down, in reverse, or without sound. Some are shown many times over to wear out the viewer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> At one point, a commercial starring Donald Campbell advertising a boys' adventure magazine is looped forty times,<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref> amounting to half an hour's worth of video.<ref name=":0" /> The film notably features Hermine Demoriane, Roger Dixon, Graham Stevens, Carla Liss and Martine Meringue.<ref name=":2" /> As British artist David Curtis has noted, the film had low production values.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Release

The film was originally released in 1968 at the Arts Lab and the Cinémathèque Française,<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> being one of the first films made by London Film-Makers' Co-op.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It was subsequently aired at various locations within the next 2 years.<ref name=":0" /> At the time of its release it was the longest film made, but has since been superseded by other films; the current longest film ever made is Logistics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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