Educational technology does not lag behind in the connoisseurship domain. Belland has long advocated a thoughtful, careful analysis of the programs and products of educational technology. One of the first steps, argues Belland (1991, p. 33), is that "instructional technologists need to experience the "classic works" in the field, especially instructional film." Some of those films, which should be familiar to every educational technologist, include Braverman's American Time Capsule; the U.S. Navy's Film Tactics; Lorenz's The Plow That Broke the Plains; McLaren's abstract experiments from Canada, including Fiddle Dee Dee and Neighbors; Flaherty's Nanook of the North, and countless others. To be unaware of the first halting attempts in informational, instructional, and what John Grierson termed documentary style, is to be uninformed as to the powerful early contributions of our field. In a rush towards a vague future, we sometimes forget that we do have a history, and that many of our contemporary experiments have been done before, in some different form or medium true, but, nevertheless, we are indeed grounded in a rich and illustrious past.