

TV SERIES
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.
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01View of Marrakesh, men riding on donkeys whilst commentary describes the position of Marrakesh CU of a camel. Camels being led: the market place: Arabs meet to talk or to drive a bargain: commentary gives a brief history of Marrakesh
02Looking at the stars from the astrologer’s, the astronomer’s and the radio-astronomer’s point of view.
03Shows how hypnotism has developed from being a stage entertaiment to being a useful tool in the hands of the doctors.
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08Dogs 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, veterinarians, the People’s Dispensary
09Supermarkets contrasted with London street markets.
10Present day methods to prevent crime often employ mechanical means to give warning.
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13A look at the cosmetics industry.
14Travelogue - Berlin. Panning aerial shots: the Mayor’s offices: Emperor William Memorial Church (94): Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, arriving in London on April 21st 1959 for discussion
15Operation Noah’s Ark’ devoted to rescuing animals from an island which was flooded by the Zambesi river.
16Travelogue of the River Thames. Shot of: Big Ben: the Embankment: people boarding a pleasure boat at Westminster: people buy tickets: the steamer sets off: the Houses of Parliament
17Coffee bars and their clientele.
18A trip around the Chelsea Flower Show.
19A look at the tradition of Derby Day.
20A look at the financial institutions of London, including the Royal Mint.
21Looks at the development of the Saunders-Roe SR.N1 hovercraft, the first full-size experimental model, and its maiden flight across the English Channel. Includes an interview with Christopher Sydney Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, who demonstrates his original model made of tin cans, and Peter Lamb, test pilot for the hovercraft.
22A look at the advances in coach travel.
23The St Lawrence Seaway and its impact on Canada.
24A look at the motor racing industry and the part played by British cars and British drivers.
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26The violin making industry in Mittenwald in the Bavarian Alps.
27Explores the internationally famous formation team and their aerobatic daring in Hunter jets.
28A day in the life of a guardsman.
29Just four men, Swiss glacier pilots, have mastered the art of landing light aircraft on the glaciers and snowfields of the Alps, rescuing injured or stranded climbers in situations difficult to
30The Royal Agricultural Show and the agricultural industry.
31Every fortnight the liner the Queen Elisabeth has to be completely restocked and this is a mammoth housekeeping operation which has to be completed in 48 hours.
32The possibilities of the construction of a Channel Tunnel.
33The annual trip to the hop fields in Kent by people living in the East End of London.
34A 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.
35The sport of gliding.
36The collection of refuse and its disposal.
37A survey of all that dancing involves from teenage rock ‘n’ roll sessions to exhibition ballroom dancing.
38The British Army on the Rhine.
39A tour of Fair Isle, in the Shetlands, where live three times as many men as women.
40Dealing with the professional work of Vincent Hitchcock, the British bullfighter; shots of him training and in action.