Gene Stavis, Actually I didn't cite *one* documentary but an entire film-making *movement* that emerged in Mexico as a result of the cataclysmic social and political changes engendered by the Revolution of 1910 . Yes, at the time these films were not called "documentaries," but the work of Mexican film-makers (such as the Alva brothers, Enrique Rosas, Jesus Abitia, and Salvador Toscano) was also far more extensive and complex than the Lumiere "actualities" or the Edison "views." Aurelio de los Reyes has published two books on the Mexican silent cinema (in Mexico) and has an essay dealing extensively with these films in Pablo Antonio Paranagua, ed., *Cinema Mexicain* (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993) which will be published in English by the British Film Institute in 1995. Yes, the Lumiere cameramen produced the "first" images of Mexico precisely for the reasons you cite, but that was back in August 1896. By 1910-11, the Mexican silent cinema already had a long and complex history of national production. The films of the Revolution are significant not only because of their socio-political connections, but also because these filmmakers develop a unique form (before the institutionalization of newsreels and well before their arrival in Mexico) and expository style to chronicle the complicated events of the Mexican revolution and its many "characters." These were *not* random views, but full fledged "films." Ana Lopez Tulane University