Legend has it that veterans of the Pacific campaigns remember hearing a harmonica in the dark between landings — but nobody ever knew who was playing it. This documentary is the story of how we found him: William J. Eckert, Marine, Hamburg-born, Iwo Jima veteran, harmonica in his pocket through all of it.

This morning Joseph Horowitz sent me an article in The New York Times about who actually does a dictatorship's dirty work — not fanatics, but the mediocre and the passed-over. I have already seen this movie. I filmed its first act, on Super 8, in the streets of Buenos Aires in 1974.

Haroldo Costa, who died in December at ninety-five, spent his life arguing that the samba school is the book of a country that reads little — and that the singer who carries its song is a griot, the keeper of a people's history. A tribute, built from his own voice on film.