General introduction to film language and five lessons covering the major elements of cinematic language: lighting, camera, mise en scene, sound and editing. For each there is a short introductory overview and a film clip, a scene from a classic film. An instrucitonal cliop then repeats the scene with synchronized voice-over commentary about the use of film language it illustrates. Includes scenes from classic films such as Carol Reed's "The Third Man" (Lighting), Buster Keaton's "The General" (Camera), Fritz Lang's "M" (Mise en scene), Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" (Sound), and Alfred Hitchcock's "Sabotage" (Editing). This program is interactive allowing students to go directly from the introduction, to any of the five lessons, to supplementary information about the classic films or to the glossary of film terms used in the program.