News that the government is putting £11m into setting up 7,000 after-school film clubs delighted the editor who still talks about the Saturday morning pictures she enjoyed as a girl, where, it seems, anarchy was the prevailing mood.

The new film clubs are an attempt to introduce children and young people (aged five to eighteen) to a more eclectic cinematic experience – old movies and those from other cultures, so that Hollywood isn’t the only entertainment vehicle for them. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday being one of the choices. (We wonder what they will make of that).

We recall that Lewes Friends Meeting have a ‘Society for Unappreciated Films’ for their young Quakers attending secondary school. Are we beginning to see a revival of those Saturday morning pictures of the 1940s and 1950s?

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