Underground films reused abandoned footage and collaged found materials

Evidence

There was also Blonde Cobra, credited solely to Bob Fleischner. As edited by Jacobs from footage shot and abandoned by Fleischner in 1959, the movie is a thirty-three-minute portrait of and performance by Smith, who appears often as a demonic infant. He also riffs almost continuously on the soundtrack that, added in 1963, juxtaposes bits of dialogue from a Fred Astaire–Ginger Rogers movie, a German tango, a children’s record, and taped radio news, with Smith’s hysterical singsong, free-associational confessions. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 426

Categorization

• XREF: The collage/assemblage method connects to how cheap and improvised production made invention density possible — materials repurposed rather than newly created.