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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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Episode 193 - Farming For Fashion
Release Date: 1963-01-01A look at mink farming.
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Episode 194 - The Black Watch
Release Date: 1963-01-08The visit of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to the Black Watch on the North Inch of the Banks of the River Tay.
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Episode 195 - Call From The Wild
Release Date: 1963-01-15A look at wildlife protection in North and South Rhodesia and the developing national parks.
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Episode 196 - Beauty - And The Rest
Release Date: 1963-01-22A look at beauty contests with some of the contestants - Margaret Boardman, Jackie White, Maureen Gay, Delyse Humphreys and Patricia Bush.
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Episode 197 - See How They Jump
Release Date: 1963-01-29A look at show jumping and how the show jumpers as well as their riders are made, featuring Douglas Bunn, the show jumper.
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Episode 198 - Island At The Cross Roads
Release Date: 1963-02-05The Isle of Man, its history and economic problems, and how the Tynwald is attempting to overcome them.
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Episode 199 - Pictures Tell The Story
Release Date: 1963-02-12The distribution of pictures to papers, magazines and television by wire, radio and Telstar.
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Episode 200 - The Silent Change
Release Date: 1963-02-19The 200th issue combines the pageantry and ceremonial of the past with the drive for more exports. The ceremonies which go to make a Lord Mayor of London combined with glimpses of Britain’s
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Episode 201 - Birdmen
Release Date: 1963-02-26Man’s attempts to fly by his own efforts. The Puffin by which John Wimpenny pedalled himself through the air for half a mile.
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Episode 202 - Out Of The Bush
Release Date: 1963-03-05The life of Africans against the background of village life and life in the cities of Rhodesia and in the Copper Belt of Northern Rhodesia.
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Episode 203 - Girls Of The Air
Release Date: 1963-03-12The work of the Women’s Royal Air Force, with Dame Anne Stephens, Air Commandant Jean Conan Doyle, senior radar technician Carole Nicholson, and Mary McGurk.
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Episode 204 - The Box On The Wall
Release Date: 1963-03-19The use of suggestion boxes to help step up production in industry. An ingenious device for scouring furred-up pipes won its inventor £1000.
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Episode 205 - Caught in the Cold
Release Date: 1963-03-26The chaos brought by snow and ice to Britain’s town and country. A lot is being done to minimise the chaos with snow clearing vehicles on both motorways and railways.
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Episode 206 - Figure It Out
Release Date: 1963-04-02Computers: how they are made, what they are used for and how they may develop in the future plus a look at ERNIE, the premium bond computer.
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Episode 207 - Signposts Of The Sea
Release Date: 1963-04-09Lighthouses off the Welsh, Cornish and North-east coasts are seen from a new and enquiring angle and the modern lighthouse at Dungeness which is equipped with automatic controls.
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Episode 208 - Crowning Glory
Release Date: 1963-04-16The creation of new hair styles, the training of future hairdressers and the art of wig-making.
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Episode 209 - Keeping Clean
Release Date: 1963-04-23The story of the many thousands of people in Britain who are employed to keep offices, shops and other places clean.
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Episode 210 - The City’s Built for Shooting
Release Date: 1963-04-30A film showing the development of some of today’s great film sets, from the time they take shape on the drawing board to when they are destroyed after shooting. Includes the films The LONG...
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Episode 211 - The Greatest Of These...
Release Date: 1963-05-07Some of the ways in which money is collected for charity.
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Episode 212 - New Universities
Release Date: 1963-05-14A description of what is being done to expand university training and facilities in this country against the background of the new Univesity of Sussex, near Brighton.
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Episode 213 - Draw The Fires
Release Date: 1963-05-21An interim report on the modernisation of the railways, which will by 1972 replace steam locomotives by diesels and overhead electrification.
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Episode 214 - It’s A Gamble
Release Date: 1963-05-28The vast scale and variety of gambling in Britain today, estimated at more than 840 million pounds changing hands in 1962.
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Episode 215 - Rag Time
Release Date: 1963-06-04Student rags in Manchester, Hull, Sheffield and Leeds raise thousands of pounds for charity. Careful detailed planning as well as amusing and spectacular ideas contribute to the success of...
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Episode 216 - The Destroyers
Release Date: 1963-06-11A description of pests of all kinds and what is being done to control or exterminate them.
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Episode 217 - Market Day
Release Date: 1963-06-18The problems of meat marketing in meeting the changing demands of the housewife. A look at market day in various markets.
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Episode 218 - Men Of The Woods
Release Date: 1963-06-25The famous forest community, at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, where today hardly 500 make a living out of woodcraft. Although many of the old customs still survive, the logs will be moved.
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Episode 219 - Rising To High Office
Release Date: 1963-07-02London’s biggest office block with twenty-six floors rising to 350 feet, attracts visitors from all over the world, not just to see the view, but to study a mid-20th-century development which
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Episode 220 - The Car Has Wings
Release Date: 1963-07-09Ways by which the motorist goes on holiday: showing some of the forty-five ferries in Great Britain, the car-sleeper train from London to the Highlands, flying to Geneva. Last year 137,000 cars
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Episode 221 - Backroom Of The Sky
Release Date: 1963-07-16Some aspects of aircraft testing at Boscombe Down and the use of film in recording these tests.
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Episode 222 - Trade Winds Blow
Release Date: 1963-07-23A survey of the industrial problems of the north-east of England and of what is being done to overcome them, both in adapting old industries and encouraging new ones.
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Episode 223 - Vintage Models
Release Date: 1963-07-30A review of vintage cars - their owners, the collection at Beaulieu, the London to Brighton run and other enthusiast activities.
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Episode 224 - People Of Power
Release Date: 1963-08-06A visit to the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station where commercial power is produced from nuclear energy, showing the working conditions which prevail.
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Episode 225 - Glamour Gets A Passport
Release Date: 1963-08-13The fashion industry and its export plans, particularly for mass produced clothes to the continent, showing a fashion show of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers held at...
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Episode 226 - They Learn As They See
Release Date: 1963-08-20Lessons outside the classroom: children from various schools learn history and geography out of doors - on a river trip, geography from the air, trips to stimulate interest in local history,..
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Episode 227 - Queue For The Tee
Release Date: 1963-08-27Today golf is a £20,000,000 industry and the British golf ball goes all over the world, except to the United States where a slightly larger ball is used. Famous and unknown players show...
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Episode 228 - Pilot Aboard
Release Date: 1963-09-03The story of Britain’s pilotage services; of the pilots themselves, who are always on call like Henry Brain; of the channel-marking buoys; and of the increasing part that radar is playing.
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Episode 229 - Forging New Links
Release Date: 1963-09-10The story of Ulster started with colonisation financed by James I through the City of London. Recently members of the Honourable the Irish Society, including former Lord Mayors of London,..
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Episode 230 - Second Chance
Release Date: 1963-09-17Made-to-measure limbs for all disabled people who need them are provided in Britain under the National Health Service. This second chance is achieved by research, the workshops, the training...
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Episode 231 - Gipsy Holiday
Release Date: 1963-09-24The annual gathering of gypsies from all the Europe takes place at Saintes Maries de la Mer in the Camargue. This is a pilgrimage and a festival going back over 500 years.
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Episode 232 - Where No Tide Flows
Release Date: 1963-10-01There are more than 2,000 miles of canals in Britain. Built for commerce in the Industrial Revolution, many have fallen into disuse but holiday makers are rediscovering them.
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Episode 233 - Jazz All The Way
Release Date: 1963-10-08Survey of the jazz scene in Britain today: record sales and the festivals at Cleethorpes and Manchester.
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Episode 234 - Key Of The Door
Release Date: 1963-10-15The Colleges of Advanced Technology in England and Wales with particular reference to Loughborough, with a speech by Prince Philip.
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Episode 235 - As Good As Gold
Release Date: 1963-10-22Gold: stored in vaults of the Bank of England, worked by craftsmen and turned by the Royal Mint into sovereigns for export.
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Episode 236 - Island Refuge
Release Date: 1963-10-29The Island of Skomer off the Pembrokeshire coast and the work of the warden of the wildlife sanctuary there, David Saunders, and his wife.
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Episode 237 - Rolling Home
Release Date: 1963-11-05Caravanning in Britain today. Holiday sites and permanent sites. The export of caravans from Britain, now the world’s biggest exporter.
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Episode 238 - In The Kart
Release Date: 1963-11-12The new sport of karting - miniature motor racing - for many families is almost an all-the-year-round hobby with practice on Saturdays, racing on Sundays and maintenance during the week.
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Episode 239 - The Sky’s The Limit
Release Date: 1963-11-19Aerobatics, originally devised as manoeuvres to avoid a pursuing enemy, are today part of the training of specialised squadrons of the R.A.F. Civil flyers, members of the Tiger Club, also do...
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Episode 240 - A Pinch Of Salt
Release Date: 1963-11-26An underground view of Britain’s only active salt mine at Meadowbank in Cheshire producing rock salt, used for clearing icy roads, as a fertiliser for sugar beet and also for medical...
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Episode 241 - You Can’t Catch Much From A Fish
Release Date: 1963-12-03A view of what the six months compulsory quarantine period means to the animals and birds that are brought into Britain.
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Episode 242 - Men Under Pressure
Release Date: 1963-12-10Some of the jobs that men do under pressure include building tunnels underwater, examining petrol and oil storage tanks, decontaminating and cleaning instruments of radiated materials at...
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Episode 243 - Over My Shoulder
Release Date: 1963-12-17A look at the training in self-defence that is given to the Women Police and at the self-defensive arts and sports of Japanese origin - judo, aiki-do and kendo, ending with a sequence of...