Filmed description and display of Vassar professor Lewis Rubenstein's "time painting" technique which is centered around long horizontal scrolled pieces meant to be viewed in a special rolling frame. The artist shows students a number of paintings while demonstrating the process of creating and viewing them. Two time paintings, "Winter Walk" and "Main Street," are seen in their entirety with musical accompaniment. Josef Bohmer was the technical director; John G. Holmes was the production coordinator and narrator; and the script was written by Rubenstein and Bohmer