I think I originally mis-posted my message to Don Larsson's personal email address. Apologies, Don. Here it is again, correctly sent (I trust). Have been tardy in my response to this, hoping that names of relevant films (other than the couple below) would come to me. They didn't (!), and in any case you, Don, and others have now listed some very pertinent ones. (But my feeling remains that some Renoirs and/or Viscontis might also fit.) My two instances are both Hitchcocks. The first is the wonderful Saul Steinberg titles-sequence for THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1956) done after the style of Paul Klee, Hitchcock's favourite painter. I discuss this in my essay on HARRY that's on the Web (URL below). See also Ed Sikov's essay on HARRY in his 'Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s' (1994), pp. 156-57. Also, there's the titles-sequence for STAGE FRIGHT (1950), which features a theatre safety-curtain on which is depicted (I think - can anyone please confirm?) the goddess Athena/Minerva, Greek/Roman goddess of wisdom and of the arts and sciences. An interesting feature of this illustration is that (to my eyes - can anyone ...?) it's done in the likeness of the film's star, Marlene Dietrich, who in the film plays a Grand Dame of the Theatre. - Ken Mogg (Ed., 'The MacGuffin'). http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.