Lyrical Nitrate (Dutch: Lyrisch Nitraat)[1] is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut.
[4] Delpeut followed the film with 1993's The Forbidden Quest, which also uses found footage; the two were released together on video and DVD.
[5] The films were drawn from the Desmet Collection of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (Eye Filmmuseum), where Delpeut worked as deputy director for a decade.
[6] Jean Desmet (1875–1956) was an early Dutch film distributor.
After Desmet's death a cache of film prints was discovered in the attic of a theater he owned in Amsterdam, and subsequently added to the museum's collection.