Look at Life
Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.
Episodes
View of Marrakesh, men riding on donkeys whilst commentary describes the position of Marrakesh CU of a camel. Camels being led: the market place: Ara...
Looking at the stars from the astrologer’s, the astronomer’s and the radio-astronomer’s point of view.
Shows how hypnotism has developed from being a stage entertaiment to being a useful tool in the hands of the doctors.
Dogs as pets, including the Queen’s corgis, and as working dogs - gun dogs, sheep dogs, guide dogs, police dogs and guard dogs. Also shows breeders, v...
Supermarkets contrasted with London street markets.
Present day methods to prevent crime often employ mechanical means to give warning.
A look at the cosmetics industry.
Travelogue - Berlin. Panning aerial shots: the Mayor’s offices: Emperor William Memorial Church (94): Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, arriving in...
Operation Noah’s Ark’ devoted to rescuing animals from an island which was flooded by the Zambesi river.
Travelogue of the River Thames. Shot of: Big Ben: the Embankment: people boarding a pleasure boat at Westminster: people buy tickets: the steamer sets...
Coffee bars and their clientele.
A trip around the Chelsea Flower Show.
A look at the tradition of Derby Day.
A look at the financial institutions of London, including the Royal Mint.
Looks at the development of the Saunders-Roe SR.N1 hovercraft, the first full-size experimental model, and its maiden flight across the English Channe...
A look at the advances in coach travel.
The St Lawrence Seaway and its impact on Canada.
A look at the motor racing industry and the part played by British cars and British drivers.
The violin making industry in Mittenwald in the Bavarian Alps.
Explores the internationally famous formation team and their aerobatic daring in Hunter jets.
A day in the life of a guardsman.
Just four men, Swiss glacier pilots, have mastered the art of landing light aircraft on the glaciers and snowfields of the Alps, rescuing injured or s...
The Royal Agricultural Show and the agricultural industry.
Every fortnight the liner the Queen Elisabeth has to be completely restocked and this is a mammoth housekeeping operation which has to be completed in...
The possibilities of the construction of a Channel Tunnel.
The annual trip to the hop fields in Kent by people living in the East End of London.
A film of a pony from the time it is rounded up in the forest until, with its young rider astride, it enters for the high spot of the pony-riding year...
The sport of gliding.
The collection of refuse and its disposal.
A survey of all that dancing involves from teenage rock ‘n’ roll sessions to exhibition ballroom dancing.
The British Army on the Rhine.
A tour of Fair Isle, in the Shetlands, where live three times as many men as women.
Dealing with the professional work of Vincent Hitchcock, the British bullfighter; shots of him training and in action.
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