Preferentially oriented barium titanate (BTO)-barium metaplumbate (BPO) multilayer thin films were prepared by the metal-alkoxides method on MgO single crystals. The BPO layer is an electrode for the BTO layer. Thin films were deposited on cleaved MgO (100) substrates by spin coating. A BTO film of 0.4 mum thickness on the BPO layer shows a dielectric constant of about 400 at room temperature. No formation of reaction phases between BTO and BPO, fired at 800-degrees-C to yield a well-crystallized BTO film, was detected in X-ray diffraction analysis.