Written in one evening in September 1917, Blaise Cendrars’ satiric "The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame" chronicles a film showing the destruction of the modern world and then moving backwards to the beginning of time—essentially erasing history. The film is then reversed and fast-forwarded to the present, all under the watchful eyes of God the Father, cast as a cigar-smoking businessman. Léger responded to Cendrars’ cinematic and apocalyptic text by creating drawings that were reproduced in relief print (as is the case with the angel printed in black on the left page) as well as designing stencils that were printed in bright colors, either layered over the relief prints or printed on their own (as is the case with the words on the right page). The resulting imagery interrupts and invades the text with geometric shapes, mechanical forms, and letters as visual elements that evoke the fragmented, fast-paced, and cacophonous nature of city life.