It is not France, but Japan, which has a long-standing and very strong culture surrounding the screenplay, has been publishing scripts in anthologies or in single books (one script to a book) since around 1923-1924. Aaron Gerow Associate Professor Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Yale University 53 Wall Street, Room 316 PO Box 208363 New Haven, CT 06520-8363 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6764 e-mail: [log in to unmask] site: www.aarongerow.com ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org