Jay Ruby asks for suggestions of "mixed genre" documentaries of the 30's and 40's, presumably to demonstrate to the post/mod lit critters that what goes around comes around. Joris Iven's POWER AND THE LAND uses a classical narrative structure that seems very much like a shooting script, in which non-actors attempt to act "themselves". The narration by Stephen Vincent Benet goes from a relatively spare Robert Frost-ish set comments about the rigors of rural life without electricity to an epiphany of blank verse in the populist literary mode (described by one of my students as like Carl Sandburg on methamphetamines) when the rural electricity cooperative is successful and the typical farmer's typical house and typical barn are wired up. The film is available from several sources. I think that our print came from the National Archives. Henry Breitrose Dept. of Communication Stanford ([log in to unmask]) (N.B.: Jay Ruby--send along your email address so we can continue this discussion without boring innocent people and worse, cluttering their disks.)