Just recently, I was at a Yankees-Red Sox game (Yankees won) with a friend, who is also a College Professor. At one point during the game, we were discussing lectures that were scheduled soon. My friend asked me, “Can you do your lectures in your sleep’. True, there are certain lectures with clips which i do regularly, but that number has grown. Even though there are fifteen lectures or more in which I use the same clips, I try to always find something fresh to say about the films. There is always something new to discover and learn about Astaire and Rogers, or James Cagney, Directors like john Ford or Frank Capra, or everything else. As a Film Historian, my job is to not only preserve the legacy of classic films, but to constantly discover new facts, fresh new ways to present the clips. I do, however, have to stop waking up in the middle of the night to jot down an idea for a future lecture or film series. Why can’t that wait until morning, when I awake?