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1600s and the desire on the part of Protestant leaders for the general public to have personal contact with the Bible (Smith, 1934/1986). As the colonial period ended and the new country was formed, the aim of the lessons became less overtly religious and more in the vein of teaching moral principles (Smith, 1934/1986). Indeed, it has been pointed out that it is surprising that writing instruction has existed at all in American classrooms given the challenges of measuring it (Monaghan & Saul, 1987). The Committee of Fifteen in 1895 recommended grammar as one of the core subjects to be taught (along with reading, math, history, and geography), but not writing (Kliebard, 1986). All new media apparently have to prove themselves or be “fit in” before they can coexist with the dominant media, and this is no different with the medium of film (the focus of this chapter)—a medium that is now more than one hundred years …