An animated short done in a collage style made from photo clippings out of various magazines and newspapers and interspersed with short live action segments.

Pioneering experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek mines the trash heap of mass media for this pulsating, Pop collage of muscle men and machinery. Alternating between stop-motion and paint-splattered live-action, Science Friction captures the frenzy of the space race and fear of the atom bomb.