some more books about documentaries worth looking at are: Aitken, Ian. _Film and reform: John Grierson and the documentary film movement_. London: Routledge, 1990. Rosenthal. Alan. _Writing, directing, and producing documentary films_. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., 1990. Evans, Gary. _John Grierson and the National Film Board_. Toronto: U of Toronto Pr., 1984. _"Show us life:" toward a history and aesthetics of the committed document- ary. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984. Edmonds, Robert. _About documentary: anthropology on film_. Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum Pub., 1974 Mamber, Stephen. _Cinema verite in America. . ._. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974. larry schwartz, theatre/film librarian, southern methodist univ, dallas, texas fzkr1001@smuvm1 -- BITNET