AN EVALUATION AND CULTURAL COMMENTARY ON FILMED RECITATIONS OF FRENCH LITERATURE WERE PRESENTED. THE FILM PRODUCED INCLUDED 15 POEMS REPRESENTING THE 15TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES, ONE MONOLOG, AND ONE SHORT STORY. THE SELECTIONS WERE ARRANGED BY AGE LEVELS INTO FOUR REELS, TOTALING 41 MINUTES. ASSEMBLING THE IDEAS COLLECTED FOR THE COMMENTARY INVOLVED VERIFYING THE TEXTS AND DATES OF THE SELECTIONS, COMPILING THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES, PREPARING VOCABULARY AIDS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, OBTAINING THE WAIVER OF COPYRIGHTS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF EXPERIMENTATION, AND DRAFTING CHAPTERS FOR THE COMMENTARY. THE CIRCULATION OF THE FILM AND COMMENTARY TO TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, FOR CRITICISMS AND CONSTRUCTIVE IDEAS ON THE MATERIAL, RESULTED IN THE PRESENT EVALUATION. ED 003 894 IS RELATED. (GC)