Baggett (1979) found that either pictorial or linguistic symbol systems alone can carry semantic information, such as a story line. In this study, college students were presented with either a dialogless movie, The Red Balloon, or an experimentally derived, structurally equivalent audio version. They wrote summaries of episodes within the story either immediately after the presentation or after a week delay. An analysis of the summaries by trained raters found that those written immediately after viewing the dialogless movie were structurally equivalent to those written immediately after listening to the story. While subjects could construct a semantic macrostructure (i.e., summary) from either medium, information obtained visually was more memorable. Summaries written a week after viewing the movie were judged to be more complete than those written a week after listening to the audio version.