Look at Life Season 3
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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Look at Life Season 3 Full Episode Guide
A film looking at the work involved in being a test pilot of jet planes, particularly concentrating on one test pilot, Jim Dell. The planes themselves, cockpits, instruments and the pilots’
A film following what happens to tea, from the time it is landed at the London docks until it reaches the domestic teapot. Scenes at London’s tea wharves are shown, with tea chests
In this intriguing film, lifts of all kinds come under the camera’s eye.
The art of rose growing and the competition it breeds.
The work of the NAAFI, with location shots in Kuwait, Gibralter, Cyprus and Germany.
Deals with the men’s fashion industry.
Deals with the divided Berlin and the recent incidents on the East-West border.
Demonstrates some thrilling occupations, including a steel erector, a quarry blastman, steeple jacks and riding the wall of death.
Shows the work of the gramophone record industry, from the birth of an idea to the finished disc, with Norrie Paramour, A&R manager.
Deals with the movements and the fishing of salmon.
The holiday rush to the seaside in Britain during August.
The sport of rowing.
The competitive world of League football.
Inside the control tower of London Airport, and shows the talk-down procedure for an incoming Comet arriving in a fog.
SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation) in Thailand.
The men and women with ideas and how they go about getting them legally accepted.
English folk dancing including the Hobby Horse dance and the Furry dance.
The thrills, the toughness and the urgency that go to make up the training of some of Britain’s finest fighting men.
A look at various sights, - in London, the Manchester Whitweek walks, liners, pet shop windows and holes!.
The development of Japan and especially Tokyo.
Made with the co-operation of the Registrar-General, shows how the recent ten-year census was carried out.
Deals with circumstances and situations where "muscles" still count: in the Army, in wrestling, weight lifting,
Tells the story of Spalding, Lincolnshire, Britain’s Tulip Town.
The hotel industry in Britain.
The manufacture of matresses.
The manufacture and the uses of ice.
A look at various survival techniques with Peter Whittingham and [sic] RAF survival expert and Jock Wishart.
Light-hearted miscellany covering the problems of parking cars in London, the eight-storey mechanical park in the City, car-breaking and compulsory testing
A look at various ways of slimming.
Models made from match sticks.
Tension created by pressure of modern life. Methods of relieving these tensions, pep pills. The work of the Institute of Directors and a castle in N. Wales where executives can relax
The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed as a wartime service by more than 1,000 recruits each year
The recreational and educational pursuit of painting.
Deals with storms, floods and erosions along Britain’s coastline and how they are combated.
Shows the organisation, training methods and work done by the Fire Brigade in London.
Deals with the growing strength of women’s periodicals.
A look at what British skiers are doing, both at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, and at Murren, where the British Championships provide almost as many thrills, if not such high speeds as...
A look at various pets.
In this film the world of shellfish, from the delicate tasting oyster to the humbler but, many people say, no less succulent tasting mussel, is examined.
All sorts of people of all ages have succumbed to the fascination of the brass band. In this film brass bands and the human and mechanical components that go to make them come under the spotlight.
Deals with the working of the Stock Exchange.
The building of Brazil’s new capital city - Brasilia.
The film covers the training, both above and below the surface of the sea with aqualung divers.
The sport of rally car driving.
The various uses of mid-air refuelling.
Looks at the production and testing of guns and their use on moors, ranges and in the various shooting sports.
Survey of the revolution in farm machinery which leads to automated farming, enabling a farmer to operate his farm almost single-handed.
Sidney James commentating on fleas and elephants in the circus.
Deals with the aircraft carrier "Hermes".
The planning and progress of work on the new road scheme and underpass at Hyde Prak Corner and Marble Arch.
