Editing If.... (section)

==Influences==
The film's [[surrealism|surrealist]] sequences have been compared to [[Jean Vigo]]'s French classic ''[[Zero for Conduct]]'' (1933). Anderson acknowledged an influence, and described how he arranged a viewing of that film with his screenwriters, Sherwin and Howlett, at an early stage in production planning, though in his view the Vigo film's influence on ''If....'' was structural rather than merely cosmetic. "Seeing Vigo's film gave us the idea and also the confidence to proceed with the kind of scene-structure that we devised for the first part of the film particularly."<ref name="LA 1/6/3/8">{{cite web|url=http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/libraries/collections/anderson/inhisownwordsifzero.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218155428/http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/libraries/collections/anderson/inhisownwordsifzero.php |archivedate=18 February 2012|publisher=[[University of Stirling]]|date=2004|quote=Extract from letter written in 1976 by Lindsay Anderson to Jack Landman in which he discusses the parallels between ''If....'' and [[Jean Vigo]]{{'}}s ''[[Zero for Conduct]]'' (LA 1/6/3/8)|title=The Anderson Collection|website=is.stir.ac.uk|accessdate=14 February 2008}}</ref>