A Trip Down Memory Lane

A Trip Down Memory Lane is a 1965 experimental collage film by Arthur Lipsett created by editing together images and sound clips from over fifty years of newsreel footage The film combines footage from a beauty contest religious procession failed airflight automotive and science experiments animal experimentation skyscraper construction military paraphernalia John D Rockefeller and scenes of leisure Richard Nixon and scenes of war blimps and hot air balloons and a sword swallower Lipsett envisioned his film as a kind of cinematic time capsule for future generations