of the keenest educationists the Irish Hierarchy has known, and has bold and enterprising ideas, is understood to have encouraged the founders of a body named the Irish National Film Institute.
The object is to direct and encourage the use of the motion picture in the national and cultural interests of the Irish people, following out the teachings of his Holiness, Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical, " Vigilanti Cure."
To this end, the institute proposes to educate popular taste in film appreciation through exhibition of films of educational and cultural value, such ac do not ordinarily find a place in the programmes of the commercial cinema ; by lectures, demonstrations, articles and criticisms of films in the Press.