The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (also known as The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World, The Most Meaningless Movie in the World and Meaningless Movies) is a 1968 British underground film lasting 48 hours directed by Vincent Patouillard. and created as a collaboration with French and British filmmakers in association with the Swiss Film Centre and the London Film-Makers' Co-op workshop (both located in London).
Content
No actual footage was shot for the project, which instead consists entirely of outtakes, commercials, strips of undeveloped film, Academy leader, discarded reels recovered from Wardour Street dustbins, and other filmic cast-off material, creating a seemingly endless stream of news-reel and stock footage. At one point, a commercial starring Donald Campbell advertising a boys' adventure magazine is looped forty times, amounting to half an hour's worth of video.
Release
The film was originally released in 1968 at the Arts Lab and the Cinémathèque Française, It was subsequently aired at various locations within the next 2 years.