>Considering that even Eisenstein studied D.W. Grifffith, I'd say >it's safe to say Hollywood has influenced Russian production. A British production called "Comrades" dramatizes the systematic viewing of American cinema by Lenin & his tovarisches, in search of useful agitprop techniques. It was shown about a dozen years ago on PBS, and I haven't seen it since. At one point, after watching a bunch of uninspiring stuff, they sit down and onto the screen comes the strike scene from INTOLERANCE. Lenin leaps to his feet -- in the light of the projector beam, of course -- and shouts something to the effect of "By Jove, I think we've got it!!" kjf-