[1][2][3] Eight years in the making, it is a collection of scenes from New York City recorded through special lenses, prisms and mirrors giving it a Cubist-Dadaist look.

In this very strange and beautiful picture we see the city of New York as it appears when photographed through multiplying prisms, or reflected in the backs of spoons, polished hub caps, spherical and parabolic mirrors.

Colored photography merely records and preserves, in an easily reproducible form, the raw materials with which portraitists and landscape painters work.

Used as Mr. Thompson has used it, colored cinematography does much more than merely record and preserve the raw materials of non-representational art; it actually turns out the finished product.

[9] It also received praise from The New York Times as 'one of the few genuine masterpieces' of the burgeoning experimental film movement in the United States.