Nonfiction Film: Feud over 'Project Nim'

Director James Marsh and Herbert Terrace, who led the experiment in the 1970s to teach a chimpanzee sign language, differ over the documentary's representation of the scientist and the science.An 18th century novel doesn't seem like an obvious inspiration for a documentary about a chimpanzee in a modern scientific experiment, but that's part of what influenced James Marsh when he made "Project Nim." Like Henry Fielding's sprawling epic, "Tom Jones," Marsh says, his film about a charismatic prima...

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