Ed Wood pioneered collage film decades before the avant garde

Evidence

I think of Ed Wood as a sort of advanced naive artist. He was among the first to make cut-up movies. He achieved this by using props he came across in warehouses and stock footage he discovered in the film vaults of Hollywood cutting rooms, then he built movies around these fragments. … This is the art of collage and sampling. It is art as found object, as coincidence, as accident, as Surrealism, as Dada, as Situationism. All made possible and motivated also by the dynamo of American opportunism, but with great love and inadequacy and tenderness. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s interest in how marginal/opportunist work predates and outpaces sanctioned avant-garde practice — rhymes with the ADDENDUM already-published grafting/trees piece and general themes of vernacular foresight.