在这部诽谤言语与不朽剧情片中,战后最早的组合式影片，可能是来自于法国的文字主义运动。希尔多•依苏的《论诽谤言语与永恒性》（Traite de bave et d'eternite）,Treatise on Slime and Eternity，又名《诽谤言语与永恒性》Venom and Eternity (1951)，运用随手取得的片段、刮损的影片、黑色银幕、闪烁画面组合而成。依苏在片中精力旺盛的旁白，也刻意地脱离同步。
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
