In four parts, one reel.

One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival.

"More relevant than ever, Bruce Baillie's 'American Symphony' ... released in 1990 via an S-VHS master." - Frankfurter Zettung

"American as conquistador..." - P. Adams Sitney

"... quixotic filmmaker become the hero of his own film." - S. Frey