Home > Documentary > Look at Life >

Season 3

AD:This title is currently not available on Prime Video

Start 30-day Free Trial

Look at Life Season 3

January. 01,1900

| Documentary

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.

Watch Now

Watch on Prime Video

With 30 Day Free Trial!

Stream Now

AD:This title is currently not available on Prime Video

Look at Life

1959

Watch Trailer

Unlimited Streaming with Prime Video Free Trial

Producted By

Rank Organisation Special Features Division

Genres

Documentary

Watch on Prime Video

With 30 Day Free Trial!

Stream Now

Look at Life Season 3 Full Episode Guide

Episode 140 - Test Pilot

First Aired: December. 10,1961

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’

Episode 139 - Everything Stops For Tea

First Aired: December. 03,1961

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

Episode 138 - High Rise

First Aired: November. 26,1961

In this intriguing film, lifts of all kinds come under the camera’s eye.

Episode 137 - Roses All The Way

First Aired: November. 19,1961

The art of rose growing and the competition it breeds.

Episode 136 - Char And Wad

First Aired: November. 12,1961

The work of the NAAFI, with location shots in Kuwait, Gibralter, Cyprus and Germany.

Episode 135 - Men In The Mode

First Aired: November. 05,1961

Deals with the men’s fashion industry.

Episode 134 - City Of Crisis

First Aired: October. 29,1961

Deals with the divided Berlin and the recent incidents on the East-West border.

Episode 133 - Jobs With A Thrill

First Aired: October. 22,1961

Demonstrates some thrilling occupations, including a steel erector, a quarry blastman, steeple jacks and riding the wall of death.

Episode 132 - For The Record

First Aired: October. 15,1961

Shows the work of the gramophone record industry, from the birth of an idea to the finished disc, with Norrie Paramour, A&R manager.

Episode 131 - Mystery Of A Fish

First Aired: October. 08,1961

Deals with the movements and the fishing of salmon.

Episode 130 - Why All The Rush?

First Aired: October. 01,1961

The holiday rush to the seaside in Britain during August.

Episode 129 - A 100,000 Oarsmen

First Aired: September. 24,1961

The sport of rowing.

Episode 128 - The Ball At His Feet

First Aired: September. 17,1961

The competitive world of League football.

Episode 127 - Controlled Landing

First Aired: September. 10,1961

Inside the control tower of London Airport, and shows the talk-down procedure for an incoming Comet arriving in a fog.

Episode 126 - Flags Over The Temple

First Aired: September. 03,1961

SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation) in Thailand.

Episode 125 - Men With Ideas

First Aired: August. 27,1961

The men and women with ideas and how they go about getting them legally accepted.

Episode 124 - The Dance Of Life

First Aired: August. 20,1961

English folk dancing including the Hobby Horse dance and the Furry dance.

Episode 123 - Action This Day

First Aired: August. 13,1961

The thrills, the toughness and the urgency that go to make up the training of some of Britain’s finest fighting men.

Episode 122 - Looking For Nothing

First Aired: August. 06,1961

A look at various sights, - in London, the Manchester Whitweek walks, liners, pet shop windows and holes!.

Episode 121 - Lady Of Japan

First Aired: July. 30,1961

The development of Japan and especially Tokyo.

Episode 120 - Counting Heads

First Aired: July. 23,1961

Made with the co-operation of the Registrar-General, shows how the recent ten-year census was carried out.

Episode 119 - Muscle Men

First Aired: July. 16,1961

Deals with circumstances and situations where "muscles" still count: in the Army, in wrestling, weight lifting,

Episode 118 - Tulip Town

First Aired: July. 09,1961

Tells the story of Spalding, Lincolnshire, Britain’s Tulip Town.

Episode 117 - Coming Sir!

First Aired: July. 02,1961

The hotel industry in Britain.

Episode 116 - And So To Bed

First Aired: June. 25,1961

The manufacture of matresses.

Episode 115 - Ice Age

First Aired: June. 18,1961

The manufacture and the uses of ice.

Episode 114 - Survival

First Aired: June. 11,1961

A look at various survival techniques with Peter Whittingham and [sic] RAF survival expert and Jock Wishart.

Episode 113 - Prison On Wheels

First Aired: June. 04,1961

Light-hearted miscellany covering the problems of parking cars in London, the eight-storey mechanical park in the City, car-breaking and compulsory testing

Episode 112 - Battle Of The Bulge

First Aired: May. 28,1961

A look at various ways of slimming.

Episode 111 - Match Makers

First Aired: May. 21,1961

Models made from match sticks.

Episode 110 - High Tension

First Aired: May. 14,1961

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

Episode 109 - Girls Ahoy

First Aired: May. 07,1961

The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed as a wartime service by more than 1,000 recruits each year

Episode 108 - Art Is A Business

First Aired: April. 30,1961

The recreational and educational pursuit of painting.

Episode 107 - Flood Tide

First Aired: April. 23,1961

Deals with storms, floods and erosions along Britain’s coastline and how they are combated.

Episode 106 - Going To Blazes

First Aired: April. 16,1961

Shows the organisation, training methods and work done by the Fire Brigade in London.

Episode 105 - Woman-Power

First Aired: April. 09,1961

Deals with the growing strength of women’s periodicals.

Episode 104 - Ski Fever

First Aired: April. 02,1961

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...

Episode 103 - What A Pet!

First Aired: March. 26,1961

A look at various pets.

Episode 102 - Shelling Out

First Aired: March. 19,1961

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.

Episode 101 - The Big Blow

First Aired: March. 12,1961

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.