It is safe to assume that by the end of the decade the videocassette recorder (VCR) will be the only piece of educational technology available to virtually all students both in and out of school. Given that working out the pedagogical consequences of VCR technology will be the most important media-related task of the next few years, the following predictions on the interrelated development of film technology and film study in the English language arts can be made: (1) the new video technology, because it permits and so encourages a concentration on the "micro-skills" of visual analysis, will bring the study of film and of literature closer together; (2) visual literacy and language literacy will increasingly reflect each other and so continue to provide a fruitful instructional way of moving from seeing/interpreting to learning/practicing the act of writing; (3) the microcomputer will become an intermediary between visual and written texts, and so help foster the connections between film and written language; (4) laser disk technology will, to some extent, supplant videocassette technology in the classroom; (5) the new technology will, in many manifestations, imitate its predecessors' forms, whether efficiently or not; and (6) a new kind of hybrid text written and graphic, and perhaps even spoken, may come to replace, in part, the kind of traditional expository essay now required of writing students. (NKA)