10 Facts About Arthur Lipsett

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Arthur Lipsett was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada.

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Arthur Lipsett's father was a chemist, his mother was an immigrant from Kiev who committed suicide in front of Arthur when he was 10.

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Arthur Lipsett's father remarried without consulting Arthur and his daughter, Marian.

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Arthur Lipsett joined the NFB in 1958 as an editor in the animation department.

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Arthur Lipsett collected pieces of sound from a variety of sources, including garbage bins, and fitted them together to create interesting auditory sensations.

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Arthur Lipsett's meticulous editing and combination of audio and visual montage was both groundbreaking and influential.

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In 1965, Arthur Lipsett completed A Trip Down Memory Lane, which used newsreel footage from a fifty-year period, and was intended as a kind of cinematic time capsule.

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Arthur Lipsett was survived by his partner, artist Judith Sandiford.

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The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histomap is a 2007 NFB documentary directed by Eric Gaucher.

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In 2010, the NFB produced the short animated documentary Arthur Lipsett Diaries, directed by Theodore Ushev and written by Chris Robinson.