It is Information and Communication Technology which has enabled ready access to digital film in the form of inexpensive cameras with low light capability, inexpensive editing software, increasing numbers of laptops, QuickTime technology, web cams and video conferencing from the desktop, digital projectors...

ICT is an essential element in the National Curriculm - both a subject in itself, given curriculum time, and also a thread which appears in every other subject.

It may be that Film can learn from ICT and its model of introduction (including its mistakes and the appreciation of its cost) as well as harnessing its strengths to provide, say, an editing suite on every desktop. Still digital cameras are universal in schools - can ICT make cam-corders equally common and useful?