Intended for interdisciplinary study of political, socio-economic, and design issues, the project requires that students be able both to use available material and to add new visual material to the database. The interactive version is currently being developed at the Media Laboratory on a Project Athena Visual Workstation, runs under X-windows with a Parallax 1280 board a single-screen high-resolution display. This paper will describe issues and solutions related to clarity and directness of information access; time-linked relationships between movie segments, graphics and text; and the set of user tools which allow viewers to edit video footage, create graphic models and link their notations to the master database.