This all-but-forgotten film by Arthur Lipsett, produced by The National Film Board of Canada, is an authentic talisman of where the world was in 1961, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Subject; it was Lipsett’s first film. People as diverse as Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas have claimed it as an influence on their work. But the world was not so kind to Lipsett himself, as the 2007 documentary The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histomap by Eric Gaucher makes painfully clear.
