- Absence of a linear narrative.
- Conventions include, out of focus images, rapid editing, abstract techniques.
- Todays experimental films are argued to be a genre in itself, with its own conventions.
- Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians and its distribution process through non profit organizations like The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York, and similar cooperative in many others countries through the world.
1940 to 1946 - Soundies: US JukeBox
- 3 Minutes black and white films.
- Located in nightclubs, bars & restaurants.
- War time military (exposure of woman images).
- A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a specific selection.
1960's - Scopitones: French
-The first Scopitones were made in France.
- In colour images & 36 types to pick from.
- Unknown artists sang popular english songs.
- Low production standard.
- Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. Based on technology developed during World War II, color 16 mm film clips with a magnetic soundtrack were designed to be shown in a specially designed jukebox. 
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