The producer, distributor, and exhibitors waive all liability for physical or mental injury possibly caused by the motion picture "The Flicker."

Since this film may induce epileptic seizures or produce mild symptoms of shock treatment in certain persons, you are cautioned to remain in the theatre only at your own risk.

[7] By November 1964, Conrad had begun designing a flicker movie with "gradually lengthening alternate white & black areas on the film."

He made notes on how to expose progressively longer sections of film with black and white, ignoring the frame widths.

[10] He consulted William S. Burroughs's 1964 article "Points of Distinction Between Sedative and Consciousness-Expanding Drugs" while arranging the patterns.

[12] Filmmaker Jonas Mekas gave Conrad rolls of film and helped obtain a Bolex camera to use.

He produced one 16 mm roll with 47 arrangements of black and white frames and made ten copies.

He used an inexpensive 8 mm film splicer to reorder the frames such that each of the 47 arrangements was repeated ten times.

[13] He also added a long section with the film's credits to lull the audience into a state of compliance, making the flicker effect stronger.

[15] Conrad intended for the audio to be played from a separate stereo tape because of film's poor sound fidelity.

[25] Filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice also likened the film to Arnulf Rainer but noted that the former focused on autonomic reactions to the strobe rate as well as the "awareness of gradually changing modes of perception.