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Dear Sir,
The Liverpool Youth Committee recently appointed a SubCommittee to consider how best to advise the youth of the city regarding current films. They decided to issue a monthly circular of Film Reviews, for which they would use any available publications of a helpful nature already in circulation. I placed before them the C.F.N. The Chairman, a non-Catholic, who had studied it previous to the meeting, said publicly that he thought it excellent and “just what we wanted’’. Whereupon the copy was passed round and received general approval. They have since asked for back numbers and I expect they will become regular subscribers.
I think you will like to know this for your encouragement. The Liverpool Youth Committee is a very representative and influential body.
Your recent short article on Cinema Clubs was interesting but seemed to me to be unsatisfactory. We in Liverpool, whilst entirely in favour of good children’s films, are opposed to Saturday morning Cinema Clubs. On our recommendation the city magistrates recently refused an application for starting these Clubs in the city and this only after we had heard Miss Mary Field on the subject. She was quite unconvincing on the matter.
Wishing you every success in your devoted work.
Yours, (Mgr.) T. Adamson.
Dear Father,
I don’t think much of the new name Focus; for it is a very hackneyed one: every week there is a B.B.C. programme called Focus; also I think the change is a great mistake, for the people who buy the magazine at present know it as C.F.N. and an enormous proportion of them will cease to buy it, because they will not realise that the new name is the same as the old. It is like throwing away the results of years of effort to get people talking about the C.F.N. and then start getting them to talk about another name which signifies nothing. I think it will be suicidal for the circulation.
F. E. Young.
Dear Sir,
I would appreciate some enlightenment as to the purpose of Children’s Cinema Clubs. Last season the Leaders of certain Cinema Clubs in this part of London organised an “Inter-Club Football Competition’’. During the summer a “Field Day” was organised, and recently Senior Scouts who were prepared to act as stewards at the “Odeon Children’s Service” were asked to note that “ . . . the next Service will be held on Sunday, October 26th”. What is the reason for these activities, and how do they come within the scope of a Cinema Club?
Yours, R. P. Scott.