He also collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard, who had been impressed by "Primary". Their initial plan was to film "whatever we saw happening around us" in a small town in France, but this never came to fruition. In 1968, the two worked on a film that Godard initially conceived as "One AM" (One American Movie) on the subject of anticipated mass struggles in the United States – similar to the uprisings in France that year. When it became clear that Godard's assessment was incorrect, he abandoned the film. Pennebaker eventually finished the project himself and released it several years later as "One PM", meaning "One Perfect Movie" to Pennebaker and "One Pennebaker Movie" to Godard.