The film is the brainchild of Hungarian director György Pàlfi, who has spent three years painstakingly editing together clips from hundreds of classics to create a single coherent story. Due to the premiere at the Everything Is festival in LA, the festival organisers say the final 84-minute product could be read as an "immersive art piece or the all-time highlight reel of your dreams".

Although it might seem like a strange task to undertake, the idea is actually quite a challenging one that requires an in-depth knowledge of cinematic storytelling. There's a lot of effort required to ensure completely different shots link up without breaking some of the basic rules of editing and cinematography. However, in the process you could get your eventual audience thinking about the way film grammar actually works, and identitfy recurrent tropes and storytelling tricks throughout seemingly completely different productions.

You can take a look at a trailer of Pàlfi's efforts below, using everything from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights to Back to the Future.

Of course, the idea of cutting together very different films isn't a new one, albeit one usually done in a much shorter form. There is always the inspired Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, though. It uses a range of clips from classic noir and detective films alongside newly shot footage to create both a parody of and homage to the genre:

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