----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I've seen four episodes of this series on KCET in Los Angeles so far, and I've not exactly been impressed with the series so far, either. I thought the opening show was interesting, as the producer tried to identify/define "American Cinema." But the rest of the series has so far been less interesting. I think, as the producer mentioned in an article in the L.A. Times tv guide, that it really is geared to folks who don't have a strong sense of the history of U.S. cinema, but just watch old movies on tv and go out occassionally to see some of the currently running Hollywood studio movies. I'm going to keep watching the series, because I am interested in how the rest of the "chapters" are produced, and perhaps I'll come away with a better diagnosis of the series by the time it ends and is off the air. But it certainly doesn't seem to be a "definitive" video program/series on U.S. filmmaking. Doug Simpson