: Conner's brilliant editing of found footage from documentaries, Hollywood movies, training films, and scrap leader juxtaposes shots, as Stuart Liebman writes, "to suggest a continuity, even a causality where none can plausibly exist." The effect is to comment on the very nature of movies, "but soon the metaphor of association becomes serious, as we realize we are witnessing the apocalypse" (Freude Bartlett).