Bob, I'm not quite sure what you're asking for. There are lots of studies of what happens to films before they get released. Some of these are general treatments of aspects of production (say a book on art direction) and some are studies of the development of particular films (Kael's essay on Citizen Kane, for example, or Rosenblum's stories about the editing of films he worked on). But I think the major problem has to do with the differences between the media. After all, a sketch for a symphony is still a piece of music, but a chunk of screenplay or a drawing of a set isn't really a fragment of a film. What significance do music scholars make of the sketches for a work of music? Are they primarily a means of deriving the intentions of the composer? Or are they a means of understanding the various forces and influences that affect the final composition? Or is it something else entirely? ___________________________________________________________ James Peterson University of Notre Dame [log in to unmask]