Dang, this fershlugginer technology doth indeed exist in a vacuum. I'm tending to a friend who broke his foot, and am therefore not used to his computer's quirks. As I'd started to say, in my opinion the Burns film (he doesn't shoot on video) was a profound disappointment. I reviewed it for my newspaper at the time, the Hartford Advocate; if I can find a way to post it on the listserve, I shall. Though I knew what Ken was trying to do — get new generations interested in important aspects of history — I believe he relied too much on sentimental received opinion. In my opinion, the most precise capturing of Sam's duality is Will Vinton's "The Adventures of Mark Twain." It was done in Claymation in 1985 and dismissed as a children's movie. It's not, by any means. Keep up the good fight. Kathy O'Connell